The so-called Rutherford's experiment, as it is outlined in many physics textbooks, is a case in point of the flaws around the history at the educational level of one of the decisive event of modern physics: the discovery that the atom has a nucleus. This paper shows that this alleged experiment is a very approximate and very partial synthesis of a series of different particle scattering experiments, starting with that carried out by Rutherford in 1906 and ending with Geiger and Marsden's 1913 experiments. © 2018 IOP Publishing Ltd.
Leone, M., Robotti, N., Verna, G. (2018). Rutherfords experiment on alpha particles scattering: the experiment that never was. PHYSICS EDUCATION, 53(3) [10.1088/1361-6552/AAA353].
Rutherfords experiment on alpha particles scattering: the experiment that never was
Robotti, N.
;Verna, G.
2018-01-01
Abstract
The so-called Rutherford's experiment, as it is outlined in many physics textbooks, is a case in point of the flaws around the history at the educational level of one of the decisive event of modern physics: the discovery that the atom has a nucleus. This paper shows that this alleged experiment is a very approximate and very partial synthesis of a series of different particle scattering experiments, starting with that carried out by Rutherford in 1906 and ending with Geiger and Marsden's 1913 experiments. © 2018 IOP Publishing Ltd.
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