• Since Rutherford did not know that quantum mechanics governed his scattering experiment, it is ( only ) a happy accident that his formula correctly describes low-energy scattering.
СЧАСТЛИВАЯ СЛУЧАЙНОСТЬ
Русско-английский перевод СЧАСТЛИВАЯ СЛУЧАЙНОСТЬ
Циммерман М., Веденеева К.. Русско-Английский научно-технический словарь переводчика. Russian-English scientific dictionary for translators. 2012