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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 ...

Ever since Max Planck introduced the idea of the quantum to the world, physicists have argued about whether reality is more like sand or water. Planck’s famous 1900 discovery that energy is grainy — ...

No discovery struck deeper into the scientific understanding of reality, with more profound implications for civilization, than Rutherford’s revelation of the architecture of the atom. A century ago ...

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 ...

Vilhelm Bohr will speak in Waterloo, Ontario, on Wednesday evening about his grandfather's legacy as one of the greatest minds in history. Watch live at 7 p.m. Enjoy the latest local, national and ...