alleryStart learning →Which model did Geiger and Marsden's 1908 results contradict?
AThomson's model
BRutherford's model
CBohr's model
DDalton's model
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. Thomson's model
Occasional large angle deflections of alpha particles could not occur in a diffuse positive sphere, so they ruled out Thomson's model.
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