This man proposed an experiment in which roughly 1 in 8,000 alpha particles were deflected through large angles, disproving the Thomson plum-pudding model of the atom.
This man names a phenomenon described either by the low-velocity limit of the Mott formula, or as the limit of a muon-electron interaction as the muon mass goes to infinity. A type of spectrometry named for him is often used in tandem with Elastic Recoil Detection to non-destructively analyze thin films of materials. Integrating the solution to the Binet equation over possible incoming trajectories yields a cross section for this man's namesake phenomenon that is inversely proportional to the fourth power of sine of theta over two, as well as a distance of closest approach of roughly 27 (*) femtometers. His namesake type of elastic scattering is governed by the static Coulomb potential of a point charge. This man proposed an experiment in which roughly 1 in 8,000 alpha particles were deflected through large angles, disproving the Thomson plum-pudding model of the atom. For 10 points, name this physicist, whose students Geiger and Marsden carried out the gold foil experiment.
This man names a phenomenon described either by the low-velocity limit of the Mott formula, or as the limit of a muon-electron interaction as the muon mass goes to infinity.
Ernest Rutherford