Developments Leading to the Bohr's Atomic Model

By the time different atomic models were being debated, two separate lines of experimental and theoretical work — results that seemed, at first, unrelated to atomic structure — turned out to be exactly what was needed to fix Rutherford's problems. Niels Bohr drew on both of them in building his own model of the hydrogen atom: (1) the wave-particle duality of electromagnetic radiation, and (2) the line emission spectrum of hydrogen. The next two …