This experiment is sometimes named for the two individuals who actually conducted it, Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden. The set-up for this experiment i
This experiment is sometimes named for the two individuals who actually conducted it, Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden. The set-up for this experiment included a circular sheet of zinc sulfide that lit up when contact was made by alpha particles. Those alpha particles sometimes were (*) reflected directly back to their source, a result described as "firing a fifteen-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and hav[ing] it come back and hit you." For 10 points, name this experiment that discovered the positively charged nucleus.
This experiment is sometimes named for the two individuals who actually conducted it, Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden.
Rutherford {gold foil} experiment [or {Rutherford} experiment; or Geiger-Marsden experiment