Nuclear Fusion II: The Gold Foil Experiment

Our series of episodes on nuclear fusion begins with the
Rutherford Gold Foil experiment, which first discovered the
nucleus and changed our understanding of the atomic world
forever. 

From an experiment "every bit as astonishing as if you shot a
15-inch shell at tissue paper and it bounced back", to the poor
graduate students who had to stay up all night in pitch dark
counting tiny flashes, we'll discuss this seminal experiment and
its results. 


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