__1803: __English chemist-physicist John Dalton starts using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements. Dalton, considered the father of modern atomic theory, made a logbook entry that day ...

IN an article in the Moniteur Scientifique Quesneville Prof. Maurice Delacre, stimulated by a passage in “The Life and Work of Gerhardt” by E. Gnmaux, severely criticises the attitude which was taken ...

What is Mass Number? The answer to this question and other informative content related to molecular chemistry is provided here. Read this article to get the basic knowledge of the atomic number and ...

This week's element is hassium, which has the atomic symbol, Hs, and the atomic number, 108. Its name comes from hassia, which is the Latin name for the German state of Hesse, home to the lab where it ...

The National Academy of Sciences added a “foreign associate” to its goodly company: Russian physicist Peter Kapitza, Hero of Socialist Labor. He was worthy of the honor. Besides a monster string of ...

This week's element is copernicium, which has the atomic symbol, Cn and the atomic number, 112. Originally known as ununbium, this element was named in honour of astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, who ...

The heaviest recognized chemical element with the atomic number 112 was discovered at the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung and -- since February 19, 2010, -- officially carries the name ...

SYMBOLS are both an aid and an obstacle to thought. Their brevity and simplicity may help us, working according to a fixed system, to perform mental operations which without their aid might be ...