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...Rutherford had shown that atoms have small nuclei around which electrons revolve like planets around miniature suns. In several ways the '"Rutherford model of the atom" did not work, but in 1913, when Bohr was 28, he applied to it the strange new concepts of the quantum theory, which bewildered most physicists then as they bewilder most laymen now. The atomic electrons, said unclassical Physicist Bohr, cannot revolve in any old orbit. They must stick to certain particular orbits, and when they jump from one to another, they emit light. In 1913 this theory seemed "against common sense...
Niels Bohr, the originator of the atomic quantum theory, will speak at Kresge Auditorium, tomorrow evening. The Nobel prize-winner will discuss "The Elements of Classical Physics" at the first of the Karl Taylor Compton Lectures...
Bohr, who received the 1957 Atoms for Peace Prize, will give five more lectures at Kresge, speaking on "The Atomic Theory and Quantum of Action" on Nov. 7; "The Principles of Quantum Mechanics," Nov. 14; "The Notion of Complementarity in Quantum Physics," Nov. 19; "Complementary Relationships in Biology and Psychology," Nov. 21, and "Atomic Physics and Man's Position...
Physicists Without Physics. "The present age of specialization has gone an unbelievable distance. Not only are we developing physicists who know no chemistry, physiologists who know no biology, but we are beginning to get [the physicist] who does not know physics. He proceeds at once to the subtleties of quantum theory without a good fundamental knowledge of classical mechanics or classical optics, even though in these fields many of the very same problems which confront him in the latest specialty already have appeared in a simpler and more perspicacious form...
...foremost teachers of theoretical physics in the country, Kemble was one of the first American scientists to contribute to the development of the quantum theory of physics. He published a book in 1938 on the subject of quantum mechanics...