Atomic Model

Rutherford’s Atomic Model

Soon after the discovery of fundamental particles, a lot of scientists tried to explain the distribution of these particles inside the atom with an atomic model. One of such models is Rutherford’s Atomic Model. The first such atomic model was the plum pudding model by J. J. Thomson. According to Thomson’s model, an atom is …

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Bohr’s Atomic Model

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Bohr’s Atomic Model was introduced by Niels Bohr in 1915. It was basically a modified version of Rutherford’s Atomic Model wherein Bohr explained that electrons move in fixed orbitals (shells) and not anywhere in between and he also explained that each orbit (shell) has a fixed energy level. Let us look at a bit of …

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