Atom to the positively charged nucleus by the attraction created from opposite electric charges. If an atom has more or fewer electrons than its atomic number, then it becomes respectively negatively or positively charged as a whole; a charged atom is called an ion. Electrons have been known since the late 19th century, mostly thanks to J.J. Thomson; see history of subatomic physics for details. Protons have a positive charge and a mass 1,836 times that of the electron, at . The number of protons in an atom is called its atomic number. Ernest Rutherford (1919) observed that nitrogen under alpha-particle
Atom Bank Atom Bank Atom Bank is a digital financial company and challenger bank. It provides banking services through a smartphone app. It has no physical outposts. As a smartphone app-based bank, it does not have a traditional online banking outlet, as users must use the application to bank. Atom first secured its banking license in June 2015. The company publicly launched in April 2016. In March 2017 it raised £83 million in venture funding, which brought its total funding to over £200 million. On 9 March 2017, the bank experienced over 5,000 new customer signups in one day, a new record.