"Rutherford's Experiment" on Alpha Particles Scattering: The Experiment That Never Was

Autor/inn/en	Leone, M.; Robotti, N.; Verna, G.
Titel	"Rutherford's Experiment" on Alpha Particles Scattering: The Experiment That Never Was
Quelle	In: Physics Education, 53 (2018) 3, Artikel 035003 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Leone, M.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0031-9120
DOI	10.1088/1361-6552/aaa353
Schlagwörter	Science Experiments; Textbooks; Scientific Principles; Models; Molecular Structure; Science Education; Nuclear Physics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Textbook; Text book; Schulbuch; Lehrbuch; Analogiemodell; Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung; Atomphysik; Kernphysik
Abstract	The so-called "Rutherford's experiment," as it is outlined in many physics textbooks, is a case in point of the flaws around the history at the educational level of one of the decisive event of modern physics: the discovery that the atom has a nucleus. This paper shows that this alleged experiment is a very approximate and very partial synthesis of a series of different particle scattering experiments, starting with that carried out by Rutherford in 1906 and ending with Geiger and Marsden's 1913 experiments. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01