Question

rutherford and JJ thompson both contributed to what we know about the structure of the atom. What experiments did they perform and how did it change what we know about the structure of the atom? Furthermore describe the structure of an atom using only two words

Answer 1

J.J. Thomson's experiments with cathode-ray tubes showed that all atoms contain tiny negatively charged subatomic particles or electrons. Rutherford's gold foil experiment showed that the atom is mostly empty space with a tiny, dense, positively-charged nucleus. I would describe the structure of an atom as the plum pudding model.