Bohr’s Model of an Atom: Danish Physicist Niels Bohr received his Ph.D. from the University of Copenhagen in 1911. In 1922, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the atom’s ...

The Bohr model, introduced by Danish physicist Niels Bohr in 1913, was a key step on the journey to understand atoms. Ancient Greek thinkers already believed that matter was composed of tiny basic ...

Atoms are very small. They have a radius of around 1 × 10 10 metres. This symbol shows that chlorine has 35 particles in the nucleus (protons and neutrons), 17 of which are protons. It also tells us ...

Neutrinos are difficult to detect because they interact weakly with the matter around them: unlike electrons, they have zero electric charge, so they don’t experience a force when placed in an ...

Atom Computing and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) recently announced a collaborative project to explore the first use of quantum computing to assist in the management and optimization ...

More than 400 years have already passed since human beings invented the microscope, a technique for observing the microscopic world. The exploration of microscopic world using microscopes has been the ...

Registration for this event has closed. Please join the CSIS Project on Nuclear Issues (PONI) on Wednesday, November 20, 2024 at 9:30 am ET, for the launch of its report, Project Atom 2024. Attendance ...