NAQT You Gotta Know: Science — Flashcards

(1885 - 1962) Bohr reconciled Rutherford's results from the gold foil experiment with Max Planck's quantum theory to create a model of the atom (the Bohr model) in which electrons reside in specific energy levels at specific stable radii. This model was the basis for Johann Balmer's work with spectroscopy and Johannes Rydberg's energy formula, which explicitly stated the frequency of light that an electron would emit if it went from a higher energy to a lower energy. Bohr and his son fled to the U.S. in World War II under the pseudonym 'Baker,' and contributed to the Manhattan Project.