Ernest Rutherford's family emigrated from England to New Zealand before he was born. They ran a successful farm near Nelson, where Ernest was born. One of 12 children, he liked the hard work and open ...

On 2 April, 1913, Niels Bohr wrote to his wife Margrethe: “My dearest little one. Rutherford should only know that it is you who have to do it all.” Bohr had just had a discussion with Ernest ...

Niels Bohr was born and educated in Copenhagen, Denmark. He lived, worked, and died there, too. But his mark on science and history was worldwide. His professional work and personal convictions were ...

Ernest Rutherford: discovery of the nucleus -- Ernest Rutherford: radioactivity -- Max Planck: pursuit of an "absolute," the entropy law -- Max Planck: the quantum theory -- Albert Einstein: work of ...

Quantum physics might not be the most approachable topic, but there’s a good chance you’ve heard of some of its elemental parts, like atoms. In the early 20th century, Danish physicist Niels Bohr ...

The U.S. also honored a famed scientist last week: Physicist Niels Henrik David Bohr, one of the fathers of atomic fission. President Eisenhower went to Washington’s National Academy of Sciences to ...

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 ...