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, it was roughly ...
Nearly a century after Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr turned a technical disagreement into a philosophical duel, a new ...
The Theory of Spectra and Atomic Constitution: Three Essays. By Prof. Niels Bohr — The beautiful conception which inspires and co-ordinates practically the whole of modern atomic physics is the atomic ...
NMAH copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. This comprehensive scientific history presents for the first time a detailed and comprehensive study of the Bohr atom in all its ...
God does not play dice with the universe,” Albert Einstein famously declared in 1927, sparking one of the most enduring ...
Almost since I can remember, my ambition was to be a physicist. My parents had both studied physics and worked for a short time in the Cavendish Laboratory, and, although neither made a career in ...
He was a gentleman who helped create the world’s most deadly weapon; a humble man who collected as many honors as almost any man of his time. Before he died of a heart attack last week at 77, Danish ...