The Docket and Denver Bar Association. All Rights Reserved. All material from The Docket provided via this World Wide Web server is copyrighted by the Denver Bar Association. Before accessing any specific article, click here for disclaimer information. It has a nucleus, a cluster of protons and neutrons.
Electrons orbit the nucleus like moths around a light bulb.
Blow an atom up to the size of the Superdome in New Orleans. The electrons will orbit the outer perimeter of the building at thousands of miles per second. The quote is from a book he authored with his brother Arnold, the director of the Lung Biology Program at Tulane University Medical School and an internationally known scientist. Published in Germany, Brazil, Taiwan, South Korea, Sweden, and Australia, with a forward by a Nobel prize recipient, the work is in its sixth printing. Sales are stronger now than when it first came out in 1997.