Fast forward to two thousand years later, in 1803, John Dalton publishes the first evidence-based theory of the atom in a set of five principles about the atom, coining it as the atomic theory. ... The Father of Nuclear Physics and His Contributions Sir Ernest Rutherford, a New-Zealand born English physicist and one of the preeminent scientists of the early 20th century, once said, "Gentlemen, now you will see that now you see nothing. ... That all changed once Rutherford and the scientists who followed his footsteps published their findings about the atom to the public world. ... According...

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