1911
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Events
- For the first time, an aircraft lands on a ship, the deck of the USS Pennsylvania.
- Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity, presenting his findings later this year.
- The Nakhla meteorite falls in Egypt, providing evidence of water on Mars.
- Physicist Ernest Rutherford deduces the existence of a compact atomic nucleus from experiments involving "Rutherford scattering."
He proposes the Rutherford model of the atom, which includes the nucleus.
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