Tag: Bohr model

• A century of the Bohr atom

  Many of us are familiar with the Bohr atom: a simple model with a nucleus and planet-like electrons orbiting in circular paths. It’s a useful picture, even though it’s not complete. Bohr proposed it in 1913, but it took about ten more years for physicists to work out why it worked — and to refine…

  Matthew R. Francis

  June 6, 2013

  Ars Technica, Writing for Other Sites

  atomic physics, Bohr model, Niels Bohr, nuclear physics, quantum mechanics, Rydberg atoms