Niels Bohr

Because Bohr was a physicist, he was also interested in the mathematical model that Max Planck and Albert Einstein had set forth at that time. This model would be used to explain the behavior of electromagnetic energy. After learning that math could be used to help explain behaviors, Bohr realized that math principles could also be applied to Rutherford’s model. Bohr then developed his model of the atom which is often called the Planetary…

sphere, and then the next was the plum pudding model, which J.J. Thomson proposed. But his model was soon disregarded when Ernest Rutherford performed his gold foil experiment (H). Finally with the help of Rutherford, Niels Bohr, created the current model in which atoms are shown. The Bohr Model is depicted as the protons and neutrons within the middle and then an orbital of electrons circling the nucleus (N). There are four fundamental forces that act upon the nucleus. The forces are, strong…

ball of positive charges won’t be able to repel the beam (Like charge repel each other). Some were deflected strongly, so Rutherford thought that all the positively charges are packed in the middle of an atom. Two years later, a Danish scientist Niel Bohr proposed that electrons orbit in certain orbits. It seemed pretty advanced at that time, but it was soon proven incorrect. In the late 1920s, the cloud model was created. It stated that electrons don’t move in orbits, instead their motion were…

Manhattan Project”). In late 1941, the American effort to design and build an atomic bomb received its code name -- the Manhattan Project, which included scientists David Bohm, Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner, Otto Frisch, Rudolf Peierls, Felix Bloch, Niels Bohr, Emilio Segre, James Franck, Enrico Fermi, Klaus Fachs, and Edward Teller (“The Manhattan Project”). The chief among the people who unleashed the power of the uranium atom was Robert Oppenheimer, who oversaw the project from conception to…

with the Nazi ideology that out casted many of those whom he considered the best of friends and colleagues. There is a lot of evidence suggesting that he was not in line with Nazi ideology; primarily this is shown by the fact that he even met with Niels Bohr at all in Copenhagen since it was inherently risky for him and any staunch Nazi would not interact with Jews or even acknowledge the science they created. There is much further evidence of this considering that many labeled him a “white Jew”…

where he studied at the University of Cambridge. While at Cambridge he began atomic research and after a single year continued his research with Max Born at Gottingen University in Germany. At Gottingen he would receive his doctorate as well as meet Niels Bohr. Eventually he would establish with the help of Born the Born-Oppenheimer Method in the quantum molecular theory. Seeing the rise in power of Nazi Germany as well as their highly scientific and aggressive actions, Oppenheimer took…

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. –Niels Bohr (Bohr n.d.) Who would have thought that technology could advance so heavily, in just 21 years? There were different means of technology in both wars, and all of them advanced from World War I to World War II. One of them was aerial warfare, as it became faster and more durable in World War II compared to World War I. Another was war at…

opposed the use of his work to be used in atomic weapons research, and refused to work in the German government’s program to develop such a weapon. In the United States however, Hahn’s research became the basis for the Manhattan Project thanks to Niels Bohr reporting the findings of nuclear fission to the US in 1939. Using Hahn’s discoveries, the United States was able to successfully build an atomic…

History and Controversy of Nuclear Power The creation of nuclear energy has changed the world but, it has affected someone people a little bit closer. Lindsey Schiller, a registered nurse, and her husband and two children have been living next to a nuclear power plant almost a decade now. Currently neighboring the Limerick Generating Station nuclear energy facility in Pottstown, Schiller jokingly states “We kid around when we get really big flowers ... we 're under the power plant, and I kid…

In the book “The Making of the Atomic Bomb”, the author Richard Rhodes argues that the “Atomic Age” was almost entirely brought to being by Jewish and semitic groups. Through this extensive 800 page book, Rhodes brings up bonafide historical events, records, and interviews to compile a piece of work that not only encapsulates the emotions and ideological stirring of the time, but also the immersive science that went into the bomb that changed the world. This book doesn 't just begin with…