Quantum physics began in 1900 when the German physicist Max Planck determined the scale of quantum phenomena. In 1905, Albert ...

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 ...

Her thesis implicitly challenged existing theories of matter and opened the door to atomic models that would later be developed by Rutherford, Bohr, and others. Marie Curie’s thesis was received ...

The lives of two atomic bombing survivors have become unexpectedly linked through the rescue of a life-size model of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima that was bound for the junkyard. When Hiroshi ...