Ernest Rutherford has developed the new theory of atom which changed the conception of micro-matter that had existed for more than two thousand years, and the science was promoted greatly by the new theory of atom.

• E·卢瑟福的新原子论彻底变革了曾经存在了二千多年的微观物质观，大大地推进了科学在二十世纪的发展。