nijinsky's fetlocks said:
Neither,because your source is wrong.
As any brief check on the internet will confirm.
You are very, very wrong on this one:
<a class="postlink" href="http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1908/rutherford-bio.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chem ... d-bio.html</a>
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.nzedge.com/heroes/rutherford.html#DISSECTING_THE_ATOM" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.nzedge.com/heroes/rutherford ... G_THE_ATOM</a>
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.rutherford.org.nz/biography.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.rutherford.org.nz/biography.htm</a>
<a class="postlink" href="http://www-outreach.phy.cam.ac.uk/camphy/physicists/rutherford_prelim.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www-outreach.phy.cam.ac.uk/camph ... prelim.htm</a>
Rutherford
reported the work in 1919 after taking up his post back at Cavendish, he actually split it in Manchester in 1917.