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, makes an ...

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 ...

Many heavy atomic nuclei are shaped more or less like squashed rugby balls than fully inflated ones, according to a ...

Mao is said to have told a Yugoslav visitor to Peking in 1957, "We have a very large territory and a big population. Atomic bombs could not kill all of us." ...