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

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Democritus

Dalton

Bohr

Rutherford

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Answer:

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.

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