Bohr, Niels education

II]I A short biography of Niels Bohr. Dennis R. Sievers, "Niels Bohr," /. Chem. Educ, Vol. 59,1982, 303-304. 

See Servos, Physical Chemistry from Ostwald to Pauling, 128133, 265274 and especially on molecular spectroscopy and quantum chemistry, see Assmus, "Molecular Structure." Assmus notes the interest of Niels Bohr, H. A. Kramers, and Wolfgang Pauli in Dennison s Ph D. dissertation, "Molecular Structure and the Infrared Spectrum of Methane" in Alexi J. Assmus, "The Creation of Postdoctoral Education and the Siting of American Scientific Research," MS. 

H. Kragh, Niels Bohr s Second Atomic Theory, Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences, 10, 123-186, 1979 H. Kragh, Chemical Aspects of Bohr s 1913 Theory, Journal of Chemical Education, 54, 208—210,1977. 

The papers in this book thus shed light on a multitude of responses to the periodic system. The smallness of the chemical community, for example, played a role in the Scandinavian countries reaction to the system. Consequently, even among chemists who had a practical orientation and who did not pay much attention to theory in general, one particular researcher with an interest in theory—such as Julius Thomsen, a pioneer of thermochemistry in Denmark—could change the situation. Thomsen offered a neo-Proutean speculation of internally structured atoms, which Mendeleev denied, but his ideas inspired Niels Bohr s development of anatomic theory in 1913. In Norway, by contrast, one chemistry textbook that happened to deny the periodic system and that was dominant in secondary education, delayed the system s reception there until as late as 1970. 

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