Which part of an atom was discovered by Rutherford?

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The nucleus was discovered by Rutherford.
Rutherford carried out the alpha particle scattering experiment where he bombarded a thin gold foil with alpha particles.
He found that one out of every 12000 particles had completely rebounded indicating that the entire positive charge in an atom is present at one point.
This positively charged centre of an atom was called the nucleus.

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