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Dr. Hayek
Oct 3, 2015

Rutherford discovered the nucleus.

Explanation:

Rutherford's gold foil experiment resulted in finding that atoms have a dense part at their centres called nucleus and that it contains the protons and neutrons.
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This is after that J. J. Thomson describe the atom as a plum pudding where the negatively charged electrons swim in a positively charged atom body.
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Images source: Zumdahl textbook .

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