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Little Atoms

Little Atoms is a talk show based around ideas of the Enlightenment, frequently discussing science and physics.

http://www.littleatoms.com/

Atoms

This is a fun JAVA site simulating physics with virtual atoms.

http://atoms.alife.co.uk/

Niels Henrik David Bohr

Niels Henrik David Bohr (1885 - 1961) received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1922nfor his investigations into the structure of the atom and the radiation emanating from them.

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1922/bohr-bio.html

The Discovery and Research on the Atom

A description of some of the important developments in understanding the atom an its constituents. Some parts of the site are very mathematical and go beyond college level physics.

http://library.thinkquest.org/13394/angielsk/am.html

Cambridge Physics - The Structure of DNA

Series of pages that takes the reader on a detailed journey through the discovery and structure of DNA.

http://www-outreach.phy.cam.ac.uk/camphy/dna/dna_index.htm

One-dimensional one-atom gas

This is a very simple model of a gas. Here, a single atom bounces elastically in a one-dimensional cavity. It will continue to bounce at the same speed forever if the piston does not move.

http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/109N/more_stuff/Applets/Piston/applet.html

Niels Henrik David Bohr

Niels Henrik David Bohr (1885 - 1961) was the first to apply the quantum theory to the problem of atomic and molecular structure. For this work he received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1911. He ...

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Bohr_Niels.html

Atom-Light interactions and lasers

A short page dealing with the atomic explanation of lasers. Although brief and lacking detail there is a good little applet which shows what happens when an excited atom is struck by a photon.