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jnbiche on July 28, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Russian scientist who was struck by a particle a...

>Back then scientists didn't have a model for what is inside an atom though

Yes, they did:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohr_model

From 1913.

Not a complete model, as we now know, but nonetheless, scientists did have a model of the atom 100 years ago.

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