Rainbow which a glass prism could separate into the full spectrum of colours, rejecting the theory that the colours were produced by a modification of white light. He also showed that red light is refracted less than blue light, which led to the first scientific explanation of the major features of the rainbow. Newton's corpuscular theory of light was unable to explain supernumerary rainbows, and a satisfactory explanation was not found until Thomas Young realised that light behaves as a wave under certain conditions, and can interfere with itself. Young's work was refined in the 1820s by George Biddell Airy, who
New Scientist New Scientist", with Issue 1 on 22 November, priced one shilling (£0.05 as 20 shillings in the £; £ today). The British monthly science magazine "Science Journal", published 1965–71, was merged with "New Scientist" to form "New Scientist and Science Journal". Originally, the cover of "New Scientist" listed articles in plain text. Initially, page numbering followed academic practice with sequential numbering for each quarterly volume. So, for example, the first page of an issue in March could be 649 instead of 1. Later issues numbered issues separately. From the beginning of 1961 ""The"" was dropped from the title. From 1965,