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Which sources back which section of this article, and what its evidence base looks like.
Which sources back which section
| Section | Sources behind it |
|---|---|
| What Happened | Thomson’s 1897 paper; Rutherford’s 1911 paper; Bohr’s 1913 paper; Chadwick’s 1932 paper; INSPIRE-HEP’s bibliographic records; the ATLAS and CMS 2012 papers; CERN’s own account of the announcement; the Particle Data Group’s 2025 listing; the Wikipedia entry on Dalton; the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |
| Timeline | The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy; the Wikipedia entry on Dalton; Thomson’s, Rutherford’s and Bohr’s own papers; the Nature page carrying Chadwick’s 1932 paper; INSPIRE-HEP’s records for the 1964 and 1969 papers; CERN’s account of the 2012 announcement; the ATLAS and CMS 2012 papers; six of the eight Nobel Prize citations — 1906, 1908, 1969, 1979, 1990 and 2013; the Particle Data Group’s 2025 listing |
| The Argument | The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy; the Wikipedia entry on Dalton; Thomson’s 1897 paper; Rutherford’s 1911 paper; the Nature page carrying Chadwick’s 1932 paper; INSPIRE-HEP’s records for the SLAC papers |
| What Others Add | All eight Nobel Prize citations; INSPIRE-HEP’s author fields; the Particle Data Group’s 2025 listing; the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |
| Conclusion | The 2013 Nobel Prize citation; the ATLAS and CMS 2012 papers; the Particle Data Group’s 2025 listing; the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |
What the evidence base looks like
- 19Sources behind this article
- 5Sections, every one of them sourced
- 14Read in full
- 5Read at the abstract only
| What the source is | How many | How they were read |
|---|---|---|
| The papers that first announced each division — of the atom, the nucleus and the proton — plus the two 2012 discovery papers | 6 | Two read in full — Thomson’s 1897 and Rutherford’s 1911 papers; four read only at the portion available — Bohr’s opening pages, Chadwick’s paywalled landing page, and the ATLAS and CMS 2012 abstracts |
| Encyclopaedic, bibliographic and prize-citation reference works | 11 | All eleven read in full — a philosophy encyclopaedia entry, one bibliographic database record covering seven of the primary papers, eight Nobel Prize citation pages, and the Particle Data Group’s own review listing |
| A crowd-edited encyclopaedia article | 1 | Read at its introduction only, through the encyclopaedia’s own extract API |
| The announcing institution’s own account of the event | 1 | Read in full |
Reliable
Reliable, but with an interestWorth believing and reliableWeak on both, and used with careHonest, but thin
Worth believing