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 ...

Reports trickling out of Russia last week said that Stalin had taken three steps on the atomic bomb: ¶ He told Scientist Peter Kapitza to “build whatever you need” for basic atomic research. ¶ He ...

IT is fitting that the year in which the Bohr theory comes of age should hear a pronouncement by its author on the view of Nature to which it has led. It is true that in one sense the pronouncement is ...