There is an anecdote about the Danish Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr. He had invited several scientists to his ski cottage. One of them noticed a horseshoe nailed above the door and ...

but it was his work on atomic structure and quantum theory that won him the 1922 Nobel Prize for Physics. (Courtesy: Sam Falconer, Debut Art/Science Photo Library) One hundred and one years ago, ...

Olympic field hockey player Ernest Bohr was named after the noted physicist Ernest Rutherford, who was awarded the 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. One of Rutherford's post-docs had been a Danish ...

A tour of the archives beneath Schenectady's Museum of Innovation and Science is a journey through America's history with ...

Rutherford's work with Niels Bohr in the 1920s ... to generate more penetrating radiation," the Nobel Prize website explains. "Using a strong electric field, protons were accelerated to high ...

He would later win a Nobel Prize for this work as the man who ... s cat — is it asleep or awake? — and there’s Niels Bohr, Max Planck, Buddha, Plato, Karl Marx, Lenin, Sigmund Freud and ...

Quantum physics has changed our lives decisively in recent decades. One hundred years after the mathematical formulation of quantum ...

Evgeny Velikhov's many accomplishments in reducing the threat from nuclear weapons—during and after the Cold War—are ...

who won the 1915 Nobel Prize for his work on X-ray crystallography, Ludwig Wittgenstein, the famous analytic philosopher, and none other than Niels Bohr, who revolutionized our understanding ...