Over the next decade, Niels Bohr pulled it into his description of how an atom worked ... aren't -- since atoms with differing energy electron orbits conduct electricity differently.

Thus when an atom absorbs or gives off energy (as in light or heat), the electron jumps to higher or lower orbits. Bohr published these ideas in 1913 to mixed reaction. Many people still hadn't ...

In school, you probably learned that an atom was like a little solar system with the nucleus as the sun and electrons as the planets. The problem is, as [The Action Lab] points out, the math tells ...

It gave scientists the ability to predict the probable location of an electron in the atom. Many will remember the s, p, d and f orbitals from high school chemistry class. These were developed via ...