Bohr’s atomic model was utterly revolutionary when it was presented in 1913 but, although it is still taught in schools, it became obsolete decades ago. However, its creator also developed a much ...

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 ...

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 ...