The first and second centuries of quantum mechanics
I began graduate study in 1975, the midpoint of the first 100 years of quantum mechanics, 50 years ago and 50 years after the ...
Nature18d
The ‘quantum’ principle that says why atoms are as they are
In 1842, the mathematician Samuel Earnshaw showed that there is no stable, static distribution of such charges, ruling out static models of the atom ... physicist Niels Bohr began to attack ...
CERN Courier1d
Beyond Bohr and Einstein
Khalili reviews Quantum Drama, a new book by physicist and science writer Jim Baggott and the late historian of science John ...
Nature13d
(1) Atoms and Electrons (2) The Atom and the Bohr Theory of its Structure: an Elementary Presentation
SCIENCE is steadily becoming severely specialised. The proportion of amateurs (in the restricted sense of the word) among original workers of all ranks decreases slowly but surely. The average ...
Nature9d
Significance of Complementarity in Physics : Dialectica
THE word 'Complementarity' was originally introduced lag Niels Bohr to express one of the most fundamental ideas in quantum theory, that we can not simultaneously measure both the position of a an ...