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Neutral Nuclear Particle Proposal

New Zealand · Science / Physics. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1920

Ernest Rutherford3 June 1920

Cambridge · Science / Physics

Suggests that a neutral proton-electron combination could exist inside atomic nuclei, anticipating the neutron.

Names involved

Ernest Rutherford

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