Niels Bohr's model of the hydrogen atom—first published 100 years ago and commemorated in a special issue of Nature—is simple, elegant, revolutionary, and wrong. Well, "wrong" isn't exactly ...

One hundred years ago, Niels Bohr developed the Bohr model of the atom, where electrons go around a nucleus at the centre like planets in the Solar System. The model and its implications brought a lot ...

Just over a century ago, by providing an explanation of atomic emission spectra, Bohr's model of the hydrogen atom helped lay the foundations of quantum mechanics. Today, probing energy levels of ...