Question

Which scientist proposed the idea of the 'nucleus' after the unexpected results of his students’ gold foil experiment?

Group of answer choices

Democritus

Dalton

Bohr

Rutherford

Answer 1

D

Step-by-step explanation:

The nucleus was postulated as small and dense to account for the scattering of alpha particles from thin gold foil, as observed in a series of experiments performed by undergraduate Ernest Marsden under the direction of Rutherford and German physicist Hans Geiger in 1909.