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“The goal of this exhibit is to bring to life how Rutherford and his students made their discoveries, to peer over their shoulders as the work was being done,” said Greg Good, director of the Center ...

It was 100 years ago today that Ernest Rutherford put forward the 'planetary' theory of the atom with a very small positively charged nucleus orbited by electrons, a discovery that underpinned ...

I read with great interest the article by Katherine Bourzac “Divining the Mysteries of the Atomic Nucleus” in the Jan. 29, 2024, issue of C&EN (page 30). Curious readers might like to know that an ...