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”One day Geiger came to me and said. 'Don't<br />

you think that young Marsden whom I am<br />

training in radioactive methods ought to begin<br />

a small research?' Now I had thought so too,<br />

so I said, 'Why not let him see if any<br />

alpha-particles can be scattered through a large angle?'<br />

The result was quite extraordinary.”<br />

Rutherford, Lecture in Cambridge (1936)

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