When an electron dropped from a high-energy orbit to a lower-energy one, it gave out light with an energy equal to the ...

In simple terms, that assertion is correct, but for those with an expertise in the field, the longer answer to who did it ...

Philip Ball looks at how a little-known paper by Niels Bohr demonstrates the turmoil in physics on the brink of quantum ...

Rebecca Priestley, professor of science in society at Victoria University of Wellington and author of “Mad on Radium: New Zealand in the Atomic ... a model of the atom — was the first person to be ...

The tale of splitting the atom isn't just about America—it's a journey from New Zealand to Manchester, led by the brilliant ...

“Rutherford had ‘split the atom,’ the news headlines proclaimed, and the science of nuclear physics — the manipulation of the atomic nucleus — was launched, ” Priestley said. In ...

In this book, therefore, he has attempted to provide a bridge by means of which the student of metallurgy may be led to an understanding of the general ideas on which the modern theory is based.

RUTHERFORD COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) — The Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office (RCSO) charged an 87-year-old man in connection with his wife’s death. In a Facebook post, the RCSO said John Sorace ...

The reconstituted AEC has Ajit Kumar Mohanty, Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy, as its Chairman. The commission has National Security Adviser Ajit Doval, Principal Secretary to the Prime ...

Bill Byrge, an actor recognizable from his work in the Ernest movies, died on Thursday (Jan. 9), TMZ reports. He was 92. While no cause of death has been disclosed yet, the late actor’s cousin ...