What were the results of Rutherford's experiment?

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The previous model of the atom, the Thomson atomic model, or the “plum pudding” model, in which negatively charged electrons were like the plums in the atom’s positively charged pudding, was disproved. The Rutherford atomic model relied on classical physics. The Bohr atomic model, relying on quantum mechanics, built upon the Rutherford model to explain the orbits of electrons.