Everyone at that time imagined the atom as a ... the electrons in his model lined up with the regular patterns (spectral series) of light emitted by real hydrogen atoms. Bohr's theory that ...

Philip Ball looks at how a little-known paper by Niels Bohr demonstrates the turmoil in physics on the brink of quantum ...

Bohr’s model, however, suggested that certain orbits were stable and would not radiate energy. Moreover, the model was able to explain the hydrogen atom’s spectral lines, a problem that had ...

For example, according to classical physics, the electrons orbiting the nucleus should lose energy until they spiral down into the center, collapsing the atom. Bohr proposed adding to the model ...