Though he earned his fame in the laboratory of Britain’s great Lord Rutherford, the man who first smashed the atom ... also stood as a symbol—a living symbol of science’s lost internationalism.

Viewed as a symbol, consciousness is very much like many of the other grand ideas of science. An atom is not so much a thing as an idea, a symbol for matter’s ultimate constituents, and the ...

A classic representation of an atom, it depicts electrons whizzing ... At this point, the classic atomic symbol is better as art than science, asserts a 2013 blog post about the sculpture for ...