The Curious Wavefunction

There are physicists, and then there are physicists. There are engineers, and then there are engineers. There are government advisors, and t...

So much has been written about Albert Einstein over the ages that it is sometimes easy to take for granted and forget what made him special....

Every once in a while there is a person of consummate achievement in a field, a person who while widely known to workers in that field is vi...

  In Niels Bohr's original 1913 formulation of the quantum atom, the Bohr radius r was proportional to n^2, n being the principal quantu...