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 ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Way back in 1913, everyone hailed Niels ...

Skimming through the latest issue of CavMag – a glossy newsletter about the latest developments at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge – I at first thought I had misread an article that stated: “In ...

What is it that leads rather gifted children to become Einstein, Bohr, Rutherford or Heisenberg W , those great physicists of the 20th century? Biographies often reveal forks in the road, moments of ...

Twentieth-century science produced two ubiquitous models: the Rutherford–Bohr model of the atom and Watson and Crick's double-helix structure of DNA. Rutherford and Bohr did not collaborate directly ...

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 ...

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 ...

Niels Bohr’s towering role in the history of physics can be difficult to appreciate. Robert P Crease explains why Man of integrity In his book Niels Bohr’s Times, the physicist Abraham Pais captures a ...