Discovery of the nucleus of an atom was due to the experiment carried out by

Bohr

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Rutherford

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Thomson

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Rutherford

The gold foil experiment was done by Rutherford. And he discovered that every atom contains a nucleus where all of its positive charge and most of its mass are concentrated.

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