Julius Lothar Meyer is celebrated in today's Google Doodle, on what would have been the scientist's 190th birthday. The German chemist, professor and author was one of two scientists to independently ...

Every field of science has its favorite anniversary. For physics, it’s Newton’s Principia of 1687, the book that introduced the laws of motion and gravity. Biology celebrates Darwin’s On the Origin of ...

I AM sorry inadvertently to have done an injustice to Drs. Caven and Lander, whose claim for priority over Dr. Letts for having constructed an atomic volume curve comprising the inert elements is ...