Who Was the First Scientist to Propose That the Atom

question 4

Multiple Choice

Who was the first scientist to propose that the atom had a dense nucleus which occupied only a small fraction of the volume of the atom?

• A) Planck
• B) Bohr
• C) Rydberg
• D) Rutherford
• E) Thomson

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