XXth century_physics

The idea of the central atomic charge was proposed by Rutherford in the
paper ”The Scattering of α and β Particles by Matter and the Structure of the
Atom”, Phil. Mag. 21, 669-688 (May 1911). His aim was to explain the results
obtained by Geiger and Marsden [Proc. Roy. Soc. 132, 495 (1909)].
The word ‘nucleus’ was first used by John Nicholson [Phil. Mag. 22, 864
(1911)]
Rutherford’s theory explained the scattering of α particles and hardly
anything else, therefore it did not arouse much interest.
• First Solvay Conference on Physics (October 30 - November 3, 1911) -
not mentioned at all
• Second Solvay Conference on Physics (October 27- 31, 1913) -
mentioned only by Rutherford in a discussion after J. J. Thomson’s talk
• Not mentioned in Campbell’s Modern Electrical Theory (1913),
Richardson’s The Electron Theory of Matter (1914); only shortly mentioned
by Rutherford in his Radioactive substances and their radiations (1913)