The Origin of Rutherford’s Nucleus Model

If you search online for how the nucleus was discovered you will probably find a description of Rutherford’s gold foil experiment, where a beam of alpha particles hit a piece of gold and then the position of the alpha particle is found on a screen that is wrapped around the gold.  Now, an experiment like this was done in 1913. 

However, it wasn’t done by Rutherford nor did it inspire Rutherford to discover the nucleus!  In fact, the 360-degree experiment was actually conducted to verify Ruth...