THE Faraday Lecture to the Chemical Society was given at the Royal Institution on February 12 by Lord Rutherford. The title was “Radioactivity and Atomic Structure”; but Lord Rutherford, rightly, was ...
Actinides are a group of heavy, radioactive elements that include uranium, plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium and ...
Traditional chemistry textbooks present a tidy picture: Atoms in molecules occupy fixed positions, connected by rigid rods. A ...
A mathematical equivalent of a microscope with variable resolution has shed light on why some atoms are exceptionally stable, a riddle that has persisted in nuclear physics for decades ...
Atoms measure roughly 0.1 nanometers across, a scale so small that scientists spent more than six decades developing ...