The person who discovered the atomic nucleus was the
A) Swiss mathematician Johann Balmer.
B) Danish physicist Niels Bohr.
C) New Zealand physicist Sir Ernest Rutherford.
D) German optician Joseph von Fraunhofer.

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Sir Ernest Rutherford is credited with the discovery of the atomic nucleus through his gold foil experiment in 1911, which led to the Rutherford model of the atom.

The Person Who Discovered the Atomic Nucleus Was the