What do they look like? Tree swallows are small birds (about 14 cm long) with long wings and small legs and feet. They are irridescent greenish-blue on their head, shoulders and back, and white their chin, breast and belly. Tree swallows have a short black beak and dark brownish feet.
Ernest Rutherford concluded that an atom contains a very small, dense center, called a nucleus, with a positive charge as a result of his gold foil experiment.
J.J. Thomson concluded that there were small, electrically, negatively charged particles that are 1000 times less that a hydrogen atom. (England). Thomson discovered that atoms did indeed contain particles known as electrons.