Philip Ball’s entertaining biography is a guide to both the life of the Danish physicist and the mind-boggling quantum ...

Niels Bohr's atomic model was utterly revolutionary when it was presented in 1913. Although it is still taught in schools, it became obsolete decades ago. However, its creator also developed a much ...

Academy Award-winning actor and filmmaker Kenneth Branagh will be playing the role of Danish physicist Niels Bohr in one of the most highly anticipated films in recent cinematic history, Oppenheimer.

Ever since Max Planck introduced the idea of the quantum to the world, physicists have argued about whether reality is more like sand or water. Planck’s famous 1900 discovery that energy is grainy — ...

Analysis suggests that the two pioneers of quantum mechanics, Niels Bohr and John von Neumann, may have had more similar views than previously thought regarding the nature of quantum systems, and the ...

Niels Bohr, one of the most influential physicists of the 20th century, is remembered not only for his groundbreaking contributions to quantum theory but also for his insightful observations about ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Niels Bohr Getty Images/Bettmann In Christopher Nolan's hit biopic "Oppenheimer," real-life Danish physicist Niels Bohr is more ...

In classical physics there are no uncertainties - the properties of matter on an atomic level are deterministic, that is to say predetermined. The theories of quantum mechanics, however, only say ...

How much can we know of the world? Some believe we can go all the way and find the answers to the most penetrating questions, at least those concerned with the natural world. Others think there is ...

Philip Ball peers into the quantum past, and uncovers a little-known paper published by Niels Bohr, Hendrik Kramers and John Slater in 1924, that proposed that the first law of thermodynamics may no ...

Everyone in Denmark, and many outside that country, know the name of Niels Bohr, one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century. Fewer will know that his son Aage, who has died at the age of 87, ...