THE theory of atomic structure has, during the past few years, reached a stage of sufficient success and stability for it to be possible to describe many of its features in a simple manner. There is a ...

Jennifer Rampling is assistant professor of history at Princeton University in New Jersey, where she teaches the history of early modern science. More than two millennia before the periodic table was ...

Editor’s Note: Professor WERNER HEISENBERG, who was born in Duisburg in 1901, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1932 for his work on the quantum theory. A member of the faculty of the ...

Superheavy elements are intriguing nuclear and atomic quantum systems that challenge experimental probing as they do not occur in nature and, when synthesized, vanish within seconds. Pushing the ...

Markus Lutz is CTO and Founder of SiTime Corporation. He is a MEMS expert, a prolific entrepreneur and inventor who holds over 100 patents. Timekeeping might be the unsung hero of human ingenuity. The ...

Merging methodologies from physics and chemistry for the optical spectroscopy of superheavy elements. Superheavy elements are intriguing nuclear and atomic quantum systems that challenge experimental ...