Quantum physics just delivered a full-circle moment a century in the making. A team ...

A nearly 400 year-old formula for pi has been spotted in a quantum-mechanics formula for the energy states of the hydrogen atom, according to researchers in the US. Derived by English mathematician ...

Niels Bohr's model of the hydrogen atom—first published 100 years ago and commemorated in a special issue of Nature—is simple, elegant, revolutionary, and wrong. Well, "wrong" isn't exactly ...

Quantum studies took a massive leap in the middle of the 20th century, with a host of European scientists successfully attempting to unlock the mysteries of the atom. In these endeavours, Danish ...

Born in 1885 to Christian Bohr – a professor of physiology – and Ellen Adler Bohr in Copenhagen, Denmark, Niels Bohr made numerous contributions to the field of physics over the course of his life, up ...

Vilhelm Bohr hopes to illuminate the human side of the Nobel-prize winning scientist he called grandpa in a Perimeter Institute lecture this week You can save this article by registering for free here ...

Niels Bohr’s towering role in the history of physics can be difficult to appreciate. Robert P Crease explains why Man of integrity In his book Niels Bohr’s Times, the physicist Abraham Pais captures a ...

I love this story. It is a story of how ideas changed about the nature of the atom. These are the notes (and diagrams) I use when I teach the atomic nature of matter to non-science majors. The best ...

Newly released letters from the famed Danish physicist Niels Bohr shed light on his struggles with great English researchers over his nascent theory of the atom. The correspondence between Bohr and ...