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What inspired Rutherford to do the scattering experiment?

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Early in the 20th century scientists realised that all matter is made up of atoms. As a result of an experiment carried out by his assistants, Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden, Ernest Rutherford suggested a model for the atom. The experiment is known as Rutherford's alpha particle scattering experiment.
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