This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American One of the standout anecdotes in Carl ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Way back in 1913, everyone hailed Niels ...

Niels Bohr’s model of the hydrogen atom—first published 100 years ago and commemorated in a special issue of Nature—is simple, elegant, revolutionary, and wrong. Well, “wrong” isn’t exactly ...

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 ...

Twentieth-century science produced two ubiquitous models: the Rutherford–Bohr model of the atom and Watson and Crick's double-helix structure of DNA. Rutherford and Bohr did not collaborate directly ...