Photo: Niels Bohr's research notes for his new atomic theory Rutherford's find came from a very strange experience. Everyone at that time imagined the atom as a "plum pudding." That is ...

and the apparently widely different assumptions which have been introduced in various recent attempts to develop a theory of atomic constitution capable of accounting for other physical and ...

Scientific theory has had a rough time in America’s public schools. Almost 100 years ago, John Scopes was convicted of violating a Tennessee law prohibiting teaching ...

Atomic nuclei exhibit multiple energy scales ... stability limits of visible matter and how they can be anchored in our theory of the strong force," says Christian Forssén, professor at the ...

Democritus of Abdera was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher best known for developing the atomic theory of the universe. While he has become known in the history of philosophy as the "Laughing ...

ENGLISH readers will welcome this authoritative account by Prof. Bohr of the application of his theory to atomic structure. The essay has been translated from the Zeitschrift fur Physik by L.

The American theoretical physicist J Robert Oppenheimer examines the impact of quantum and atomic theory on the way societies view themselves and others in six Reith lectures.