Ernest Rutherford ... Acceptance of this model grew after it was modified with quantum theory by Niels Bohr. For his work with radiation and the atomic nucleus, Rutherford received the 1908 ...

Rutherford made a series of discoveries about the nature of atoms and, working with colleagues Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden ...

As a young boy growing up in rural New Zealand, Ernest Rutherford ... defied the existing atomic model, which assumed atoms were uniformly spread out. From this, Rutherford proposed a ...