1909年,Ernest Rutherford的学生在Rutherford所指定的实验中发现了令人意外的结果,Rutherford说此发现是他一生中所碰过的最难以置信的事情。他们在这个至今仍很著名的实验中观察到α粒子自一张金的薄片往后散射回来。Rutherford在他1911年5月所发表的论文中解释说,此散射是由 In 1909, Ernest Rutherford’s students found surprising results in experiments designated by Rutherford, which Rutherford said was the most incredible thing he had ever encountered in his life. They observed in this experiment, still famous today, that alpha particles are scattered back from a sheet of gold. Rutherford explains in his article published in May 1911 that this scattering is due