IN the review of “A New View of the Origin of Dalton's Atomic Theory,” published in your issue of April 16, your reviewer, in summing up the evidence as to the origin of the atomic theory, makes an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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