The tale of splitting the atom isn't just about America—it's a journey from New Zealand to Manchester, led by the brilliant ...
Philip Ball looks at how a little-known paper by Niels Bohr demonstrates the turmoil in physics on the brink of quantum ...
Physicists from both New Zealand and Britain have been credited with splitting the atom — but there is consensus that it was ...
In Bohr’s 1913 papers he envisaged atoms along the lines established by his mentor Ernest Rutherford: dense nuclei orbited by ...
In 1925, grad student Cecilia Payne first proposed that stars were mostly made of hydrogen and helium and shaped our ...
President Trump and physicist Ernest Rutherford. Credit ... who revolutionized our understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922 ...
Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th President of the United States on Monday at noon local time (10:30 IST) at a ceremony ...
The Whipple Museum of the History of Science is commemorating the anniversary with a new exhibition, The Cavendish Laboratory ...