For example, according to classical physics, the electrons orbiting the nucleus should lose energy until they spiral down into the center, collapsing the atom. Bohr proposed adding to the model ...

Bohr's orbits were dead. Most of physics and all of chemistry were now open to the theorist, once he or she could understand the new theory. But there was no one in Cambridge ...

As physicists like Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein began to study particles, they discovered new physics laws that were downright quirky. These were the laws of quantum mechanics, and they got ...

Ekert, who splits his time between the University of Oxford and the National University of Singapore, describes how he used ...

The word magic is not often used in the context of science. But in the early 1930s, scientists discovered that some atomic nuclei – the center part of atoms, which make up all matter – were more ...

There is a parlor game physics students play: Who was the greater genius? Galileo or Kepler? (Galileo.) Maxwell or Bohr? (Maxwell, but it's closer than you might think.) Hawking or Heisenberg?

A look back at three of the biggest stories in physics this year, including evidence that dark energy may be weakening, the discovery of a supersolid, and new advances in quantum geometry. We ...

Shortly after Rutherford’s discovery of the nucleus, the Danish physicist Niels Bohr began to attack this problem using quantum principles. He harnessed an idea introduced by Max Planck in 1900 ...

Jacob Bourjaily, associate professor of physics at Penn State, was honored with the Lars Kann-Rasmussen Prize for 2025 by the Niels Bohr International ...

What is quantum physics? Put simply ... which was first developed in the 1920s by Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger and others. It characterises simple things such as how the ...