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 ...

In 1922, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the atom’s structure ... possesses only two electrons. Further, Bohr’s theory was also unable to explain the splitting ...

Quantum physics began in 1900 when the German physicist Max Planck determined the scale of quantum phenomena. In 1905, Albert ...

This 'solar system' model of the atom is the way that most people think about atoms today. It is known as the Rutherford-Bohr model of atomic structure. The neutron was difficult to discover ...

Bohr's theory of the atoms more complex than hydrogen and helium—or give up van den Broek's hypothesis, that the charge of the nucleus of Rutherford's atom is equal to the atomic number (which ...

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 ...

So convincing is this model that after only twelve years it is known no longer as “the atomic model of Rutherford and Bohr,” but is simply taken for granted as “the atom.” In this ...