The terms theory and model are defined, and students learn how a theory remains valid. Atomic Theory: The Development of the Atomic Theory: The terms theory and model are defined, and students learn ...
Editor’s Note: Professor WERNER HEISENBERG, who was born in Duisburg in 1901, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1932 for his work on the quantum theory. A member of the faculty of the ...
THE theory of atomic structure has, during the past few years, reached a stage of sufficient success and stability for it to be possible to describe many of its features in a simple manner. There is a ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about physics, science, academia, and pop culture. A common technique in science popularization is to take some modern ...
Highly efficient controlling the individual atomic migration is the basis of the modern atomic manufacturing. Although one-by-one atom migration can be realized precisely by STM technique, such a ...
Albert Einstein and his equation E=mc² are famously connected to the modern atomic age. But as nuclear historian Alex Wellerstein writes in this counterfactual account of history, the great physicist ...
India's scientific legacy is both vast and profound. Long before the rise of modern science, ancient Indian sages, mathematicians, physicians, and philosophers were making groundbreaking discoveries ...
One of the marvels of the modern world that we tend to take for granted is GPS. Thanks to the Global Positioning System and its network of precisely positioned satellites, anyone on the Earth’s ...
The present writer has briefly discussed the history of this law, in NATURE, vol. 1. 1894, p. 149. In two unappreciative lines in a footnote to the “Elements of Chemical Philosophy,” published in 1812 ...