The Great Scientist's Big Mistake, Episode 77The culprit was a chemist who, even after the unknown phenomenon of ...

IN the review of “A New View of the Origin of Dalton's Atomic Theory,” published in your issue of April 16, your reviewer, in summing up the evidence as to the origin of the atomic theory, makes an ...

When air resistance and other outside forces are excluded, ordinary objects fall at the same rate in the same gravitational ...

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 ...

Niels Bohr's atomic model was utterly revolutionary when it was presented in 1913. Although it is still taught in schools, it became obsolete decades ago. However, its creator also developed a much ...

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 ...