Who performed the gold foil experiment?

Thomson

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Goldstein

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Chadwick

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Rutherford

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The correct option is C Rutherford
Rutherford's Gold foil experiment proved the existence of a small massive centre to atoms, which was later known as the nucleus of an atom.

Ernest Rutherford, Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden carried out their Gold foil experiment to observe the effect of alpha particles on the matter.

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