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Cavendish Laboratory : Rutherford's notes on the theory of the structure of the atom

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<p style='text-align: justify;'>Rutherford was no theorist, but his one important contribution to the theory of atomic structure was his prediction of the scattering law of alpha-particles by a charged nucleus, Rutherford scattering. This is an example of his calculation of the hyperbolic orbit of a charged particle under the influence of an inverse square field of force.</p>

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