Niels Hendrik David Bohr Niels Hendrik David Bohr was one of the foremost scientists of the 20th century. The Nobel prizewinning physicist was known for his development of the theory of atomic fission that led to the development of the atomic bomb. He was born on Oct. 7, 1885, in Copenhagen, D...

October 21, 1998Niels BohrNiels Bohr was born in Copenhagen, he is the son of a physiology professor, and went to school at the University of Copenhagen, this is where he got his doctorate in 1911.Bohr won the Nobel piece prize for his theory of atomic structures. According to Microsoft Encarta His...

The conclusion of a manuscript located at the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley, laid the words: "I have attempted to give you a glimpse...of what there may be of soul in chemistry. But it may have been in vain. Perchance the chemist is already damned and the guardian the blackest. But if the chemist...

Joseph John Thomson (1856-1940)J. J. Thomson was born in cheetham, Manchester. On December 18, 1856. Thomson is known as the man who discovered and identified electrons. He studied at Owen's college, Manchester in 1870. In 1876 he studied in at Trinity College, Cambridge as a minor scholar. In 1884-...

Our understanding of the atom has changed remarkably over time. At one point, it was considered a solid object. Now, the atom is considered to have a cloud for its electrons. We believe that our notion of the atom has had many changes, and will continue to change until we get it right. The ...

Ernest RutherfordErnest Rutherford was born in New Zealand in 1871 as one of 12 children. It was Rutherford who first "split" an atom and who discovered the atomic "nucleus", a name that he invented. For this he is regarded as the greatest experimental physicist of his time. Ruther...