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Who explained the behavior of positively charged particles being deflected from a metal foil as the nucleus?

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This behavior was explained by Ernest Rutherford using the famous Gold Foil Experiment. Based on the observations from the experiment he deduced that deflection is caused by a positively charged region which is now known as the nucleus.
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