Bohr went on to make enormous contributions to physics and, like Rutherford, to train a new generation of physicists. But his atomic model remains the best known work of a very long career.

Sir Ernest Rutherford has been ... BBC Bitesize A simple model of an atom shows a nucleus orbited by a number of electrons In 1803, John Dalton's atomic theory brought them into scientific view ...

In 1913, Niels Bohr revised Rutherford's model by suggesting that the electrons ... However, there was still a difference between the atomic number of the atom and the atomic mass.

Changes to the atomic model Atoms have a central positive nucleus. Most of the mass of an atom is found in the nucleus. New evidence In-depth work on Rutherford's model showed it had limitations.

Bohr went on to make enormous contributions to physics and, like Rutherford, to train a new generation of physicists. But his atomic model remains the best known work of a very long career.

Rutherford made a series of discoveries about the nature of atoms and, working with colleagues Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden, presented a planetary model ... of atomic science is filtered through the ...