The Ascent of Man
Episode 10 - World within World. This episode looks at the world inside the atom, tracing the history of the men and ideas that have made modern physics. From Mendeleev to Bohr, the history of modern physics has led to great achievement and great destruction. The examination of crystals led to the development of the concept of the structure of the atom.
| Episode 10 - World within World |
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| Atom - wikipedia The atom is a basic unit of matter that consists of a dense central nucleus surrounded by a cloud of negatively charged electrons. The atomic nucleus contains a mix of positively charged protons and electrically neutral neutrons. |
| Atom This consists of a series of videos that explains the structure of the atom: The Earliest Models; Smaller than the Smallest; The Rutherford Model; The Bohr Model; Spectra; The Wave Mechanical Model. |
| Max Planck and Quantum Physics Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (1858-1947) was a German theoretical physicist who originated quantum theory, which won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918. |
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