E. Rutherford developed his atomic model due to the results of his gold foil experiment. His atomic model describes a small central, dense core and a surrounding volume of charged particles.
Rutherford was a scientist who shot alpha particles through a very thin sheet of gold foil. The results of this experiment are the following:-Almost all alpha particles passed right through the Gold...
You see...the gold foil experiment was basically when alpha particles He 2+ ions were fired into a thin sheet of gold foil..It was done by Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden( students of Rutherford)..Now...