It's happy 350th birthday to the discovery of phosphorus, an element that is essential for life as we know it. ... The theory of phlogiston was not debunked until the 1770s, ...

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 ...

Indeed, he even suggests that the persistence of classical phenomena on the atomic scale could make it difficult to use phosphorus atoms as qubits. Nevertheless, Simmons remains optimistic. “Five ...

Rutherford and Bohr describe atomic structure 1913. Photo: Niels Bohr's research notes for his new atomic theory. In 1911, Niels Bohr earned his PhD in Denmark with a dissertation on the electron ...

"Phosphorus is one of the six elements on which biology depends," Jane Greaves, ... The element, atomic number 16, only accounts for about 0.0007 percent of all matter.