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 ...

If the atom absorbed energy ... His model was a huge leap forward in making theory fit the experimental evidence that other physicists had found over the years. A few inaccuracies remained ...

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Three different quantum field theories deal with three of the four ... which explains the stability of the nucleus at the heart of the atom; and the weak nuclear force, which explains why some ...

"Thus, even as a cornerstone of the nuclear landscape, 208 Pb remains a puzzle for nuclear structure theories." 208 Pb is a ...

IN a letter to NATURE of November 25 last Dr. Norman Campbell discusses the problem of the possible consistency of the assumptions about the motion and arrangement of electrons in the atom ...

Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China and the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics innovatively ...