The SciencesMay 31, 2016
Why It's Okay to Teach Wrong Ideas in Physics
The story of how Niels Bohr got the structure of the atom wrong, and how that was corrected, tells us a lot about how science works
Stories by Sam Anderson
Sam Anderson is a Ph.D. candidate in chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He blogs on the hows and whys of science at www.justkeychemistry.tumblr.com