Bohr Writes a Trilogy on Atomic and Molecular Structure
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- Series: Great Events from History II: Science and Technology Series
- Categories: Science
- Subcategories: Scientists, Physics, Physicists
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, Scandinavian History
- Geographical Location: Scandinavia, Denmark
- Date: 1912-1913
Article abstract: Bohr applied the quantum theory to Rutherford’s nuclear model of the atom, providing a theoretical explanation for a variety of atomic phenomena and a program for further research.
Summary of Event
Physics in the first decade of the twentieth century was not dominated by the quantum, introduced by Max Planck in 1900, or by relativity, introduced in 1905 by Albert Einstein. It was dominated by the electron, discovered in 1897 by Sir Joseph John Thomson. Theoreticians and experimentalists were busy developing an electromagnetic view of...
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