Rutherford’s gold foil experiment (Rutherford’s alpha particle scattering experiment) refers to an experiment carried out by Ernest Rutherford, Hans Geiger, and Ernest Marsden at the University of Manchester in the early 1900s. In the experiment, Rutherford and his two students studied how alpha particles fired at a thin piece of gold foil were deflected. According to the popular … Continue reading What is Rutherford’s Gold Foil Experiment