What did the gold foil by ernest Rutherford experiment prove?

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...

We should never say that an experiment has proven something. The Rutherford gold foil experiment led to the hypothesis that an atom's positive charge is concentrated in an incredibly small space at...

That atoms are mostly empty space and they have a positively charged nucleus.

While he was a professor at the University of Manchester, England.

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.