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 ...

Last week he was engaged in another kind of recreation which took the form of a very pleasant altercation—not only typically British but typical of the well-ballasted wit of the man of science ...

With these 26 magic symbols, however ... with Howard Markel about this week's word on SCIENCE FRIDAY from NPR. I'm Ira Flatow. Howard, when did atom first enter the vernacular?

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 ...