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Name the scientists who were responsible for the following scientific development:
The existence of protons in an atom.


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Protons:

  1. Protons are positively charged particles in an atom.
  2. Ernest Rutherford is credited with discovering the proton in 1917.
  3. He demonstrated that the nucleus of the hydrogen atom (i.e. a proton) is present in the nuclei of all other atoms.

Hence, the existence of protons in an atom was discovered by the scientist Ernest Rutherford.


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