IN the review of “A New View of the Origin of Dalton's Atomic Theory,” published in your issue of April 16, your reviewer, in summing up the evidence as to the origin of the atomic theory ...

Photo: Niels Bohr's research notes for his new atomic theory. ... Right afterwards, he went to England to study with J.J. Thomson, who had discovered the electron in 1897.

MANCHESTER celebrated last week, just a little prematurely, the centenary of John Dalton's atomic theory. It was on September 6, 1803, tnat he drew up in his notebook his first table of weights of ...

But just five years after Thomson published his model in 1904, it was disproved by an experiment directed by a New Zealand-born scientist who became known as the father of nuclear physics, Ernest ...