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What led scientists to think atoms contains neutral particles

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Scientists noticed that the mass of atoms was (usually) in excess of the known mass of protons present in those elements.

The discovery of neutral particles in the nuclei of atoms is attributed to Ernest Rutherford in 1920.

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