Join the College of Sciences next Thursday, September 29 at 6 p.m. for the Rutherford Centennial Talk, which celebrates the centenary of the publication of Rutherford’s paper\u00a0describing the discovery of the atomic nucleus. The event will be held in the Engineering II Building, Room 102.<\/p>\n
Tristan Hubsch, from Howard University, will be the guest speaker. The abstract for the speech is below.<\/p>\n
A century ago, a remarkable discovery was made by means of an an\u00a0essentially table-top\u00a0experiment: Atoms, named so for having been thought to be indivisible, were shown to be mostly void!<\/p>\n
On one hand, this led to the planetary model of the atom, the analysis of which led to the development of quantum mechanics. In turn, this experiment of bombarding a thin gold foil with alpha-particles established the basic\u00a0paradigm for most\u00a0of the epochal experiments of the 20th century, culminating with multi-national\/cultural\/political\/budget institutions such as CERN, and changed experimentation into a world-wide global endeavor. A century later, this epoch-making experimental paradigm may seem to be running out of steam, but certainly not without leaving an unprecedented legacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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