Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998 (under the category Early Influence). Inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame in 1982. Inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame in 2008.
Alpha particle. Alpha particles consist of two protons and two neutrons bound together into a particle identical to a helium nucleus. They are generally produced in the process of alpha decay, but may also be produced in other ways.
In the gold foil experiment, he bombarded a beam of alpha particles at a thin metal foil. A decade earlier, Rutherford identified and named alpha particles as one of the types of radiation given off by radioactive elements like polonium, uranium etc. Now we know that alpha particles are fast moving and positively charged Helium nuclei.