The Atomic Age’s most iconic symbol is back on Claremont’s College Avenue. A 1958 sculpture of an atomic whirl has returned to the facade of a Pomona College science hall some 18 months after it was ...

These rules help in identifying and writing chemical symbols consistently across all elements. The symbol serves as a shorthand notation for each element's name in formulas and equations, making ...

__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 ...

One of the first things we learn in chemistry are atomic symbols to represent different elements. While what we see today has undergone transformation through the centuries, the credit for the ...

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 ...