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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Niels Bohr Getty Images/Bettmann In Christopher Nolan's hit biopic "Oppenheimer," real-life Danish physicist Niels Bohr is more ...

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 ...

THE experimental study of atomic spectra has a long and distinguished history. Even the descriptive analysis of spectra in terms of series and term values the systematic botany of spectra has a ...

THE beautiful conception which inspires and co-ordinates practically the whole of modern atomic physics is the atomic model of Rutherford and Bohr. Its essential feature-the nucleus-was first put ...