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I demonstrated that the atom was not simply a solid sphere. It was mostly empty.
In 1911, in Manchester, I projected alpha particles onto a thin sheet of gold. Most passed through. But some bounced back. As if they were striking something very dense and very small.
I had discovered the atomic nucleus.
I was called the father of nuclear physics. One of my students, Otto Hahn, would use my discoveries for fission. Another, Niels Bohr, would reinvent quantum mechanics.
I never made the bomb. I died in 1937, before Hiroshima illuminated the world. I never knew what my hands had unleashed.
The chemical element 104 bears my name: rutherfordium.
Science advances. But it never looks back.
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