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...Neils Bohr, professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen, winner of the Nobel prize in physics for 1922, gave the Silliman lectures at Yale University on The Atom and the Natural System of the Elements. Dr. Bohr was not the pioneer of the electronic theory of the atom, but he has greatly refined and expanded it, and stands with Thomson, Rutherford, Lodge, Millikan as one of the world's foremost exponents of the " new " physics. A few points of special interest in Dr. Bohr's lectures...
...likened the atom to the solar system, with the positive nucleus or proton representing the sun, and the electrons revolving in two concentric rings, at maximum distance from each other. This " open " structure is the most significant feature of the scheme...
...doubt regarding the existence of the atom has disappeared, and all physicists believe in the main essentials of this picture of atomic structure. There are instruments which make it possible to count atoms with great accuracy...
...ordinary mechanical laws do not account for the stability of the elements under the new theories, for they would not prevent electrons falling into the nucleus. These move in fixed orbits and new ones cannot be created. When atoms are bombarded by free electrons, the electron rebounds or transfers its energy to the atom, in which case there is an emission of light in the spectra. Sir Oliver Lodge, in his installation address as President of the Roentgen Society, London, outlined his own version of atomic theory. The nucleus he believes to be rotating at the speed of light. Surrounding...
Over 300 people crowded the large room of Jefferson Physical Laboratory yesterday afternoon to hear Professor Niels Bohr of the University of Copenhagen give the first of his lectures on the theory of spectra and atomic constitution. Professor Bohr, who has won international reputation in connection with the theory of atomic constitution, in his lecture yesterday explained the model atom which he has invented...