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 ...

All these conclusions are in accord with an interesting theory of atomic structure that was first ... Pattison Muir—History of Chemical Theories and Laws, 2. F. Soddy—The Chemistry of the ...

When world-leading teams join forces, new findings are bound to be made. This is what happened when quantum physicists from ...

The discovery of the electron, and the application of the electron ideas, first to gas discharges, then to radioactivity, spectroscopy and atomic structure, opened a most rapid advance in physical ...

This is the second episode in an eight-part series on atomic structure and the periodic table. In this episode, we’re going to look at the history of the atom and how that model has developed ...

The resulting explosion left an atomic crater 70 feet wide and 35 feet deep. This relatively small bomb did not land on a structure ... its equally interesting history was just a footnote ...

The structure stands about 160 meters northwest of ground zero, where the atomic bomb detonated over the city on Aug. 6, 1945, killing thousands instantly, including all 30 or so people who were ...