Unexpectedly, a small number (1 %) of the alpha particles ... It is known as the Rutherford-Bohr model of atomic structure. The neutron was difficult to discover because it has no electrical ...

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 ...

Bohr's theory of the atoms more complex than hydrogen and helium—or give up van den Broek's hypothesis, that the charge of the nucleus of Rutherford's atom is equal to the atomic number (which ...

Author Dava Sobel discusses how she discovered the many forgotten female scientists who were mentored by Marie Curie in early 20th-century Paris ...

The new clock is so reliable that it would be off by less than a second if it had started running 100 million years ago, ...

Experiments with hydrogen atoms could soon reveal whether particles that were long thought to be forbidden by physics ...

Protons are the basic building blocks of matter. Together with neutrons, they form atomic nuclei. These minute, positively ...

Scientists at EPFL and AstraZeneca have developed a method to map the atomic-level structure of amorphous drugs, demonstrated ...

After 25 years of exhaustive research and investigative effort, historian and founding Atomic Museum member Robert Friedrichs ...

The atomic structure of the bacteriophage φTE ... In addition to its role in combating plant pathogens, it serves as a model virus commonly used in research to study how bacteriophages interact ...