This scientist led a series of experiments that used

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This scientist led a series of experiments that used high-speed lightweight atoms called alpha particles to bombard very thin pieces of gold foil. Some of the alpha particles went straight through the foil, but a few alpha particles bounced back. The scientist used this information to hypothesize that an atom must be made of a tiny dense nucleus surrounded by a region of mostly empty space. a Ernest Rutherford b Neils Bohr c Democritus d John Dalton