Every movie character man of a certain era's worst nightmare ... Interestingly, this wasn't the only atomic age movie to focus on the horrors of changing the size of humans rather than animals ...

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Weisskopf, theoretical physicist Courtesy photo El Rito Media Report White Sands Missile Range opens Trinity Site to the public Saturday, Oct. 19. This is where the world’s first atomic bomb… ...

in such achievements as are indicated by the words “conservation of energy,” “conservation of mass,” and “atomic theory.” in physical research the nineteenth century was a golden age.

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Robert Oppenheimer didn't think Clinton Laboratories, predecessor of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, was worth saving.

Polostan is a story about the dawn of the atomic age. Set largely in the 1930s, it sweeps across the Soviet Union and the United States in an era of momentous change. The Soviets have embraced a ...

All known features of atomic spectra have been at least semi-quantita-tively explained in terms of the nuclear atom, strictly according to the laws of quantum mechanics. The period of fruitful ...

The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to a Japanese atomic bomb survivors’ movement, Nihon Hidankyo, fighting for a world ...

Since the late 1960s, the Laboratoire Aimé Cotton (LAC) in Orsay, France, has made significant progress in the classification of complex atomic spectra. These advances have been driven both by ...