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 ...
What is it that leads rather gifted children to become Einstein, Bohr, Rutherford or Heisenberg W , those great physicists of the 20th century? Biographies often reveal forks in the road, moments of ...
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 ...
IN 1923, at the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Liverpool, Lord Rutherford announced, at the top of his enormous voice: “We are living in the heroic age of physics ...