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In 1911 Ernest Rutherford discovered that an atom consists of a small positively charged nucleus, surrounded by a cloud of electrons. Almost all of the mass of an atom is located in the nucleus, with a very small contribution from the electron cloud.
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Fritzsch, H. (2018). Isospin and SU(3)-Symmetry. In: Murray Gell-Mann and the Physics of Quarks. Classic Texts in the Sciences. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92195-2_2
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