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Rutherford hypothesized that when a beam of light is aimed at the atom, it would not diffract because the charges in the nucleus are well-distributed. His experiment disproved Thompson's model... some light did pass through, but a few were diffracted back to the source. He concluded that this was because there is a dense mass inside the atom called the nucleus. He then proposed that the electrons are orbiting around the nucleus.
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