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James Jeans’ Almost-Atomic Theory
If history had taken a slightly different turn, we might be talking about the Jeans model of the atom.
James Jeans
This year marks the 100th anniversary of one of the most important physical theories of all time: Niels Bohr’s quantized model of the atom. Building on Ernest Rutherford’s observation that the atom consists of a nucleus surrounded by electrically bound electrons, Bohr proposed that the electrons could orbit stably, without radiation, in states of quantized angular momentum.
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