The terms theory and model are defined, and students learn how a theory remains valid. Atomic Theory: The Development of the Atomic Theory: The terms theory and model are defined, and students learn ...
Visual metaphors are often essential in science when you can't see what you're studying. The English chemist John Dalton, born 250 years ago, illustrated his atomic theory using wooden spheres ...
Editor’s Note: Professor WERNER HEISENBERG, who was born in Duisburg in 1901, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1932 for his work on the quantum theory. A member of the faculty of the ...
The present writer has briefly discussed the history of this law, in NATURE, vol. 1. 1894, p. 149. In two unappreciative lines in a footnote to the “Elements of Chemical Philosophy,” published in 1812 ...