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Previous | Home | NextIn 1913 at the Lit. & Phil., Ernest Rutherford made his formal proposal that the atom was structured like a tiny solar system with electrons orbiting a positively charged nucleus. One hundred years earlier, Dalton had proposed his atomic theory using the very same platform. It is intriguing that these revolutionary concepts occurred at Manchester and not at London, Paris, Berlin, or Stockholm. Apparently the fresh outlooks of Dalton and Rutherford were needed at these critical points in the history of science.
