Niel Bohr’s Nuclear Model: The Nuclear Model That Changed Physics

Niels Bohr said that before 1913 no one expected that the lines of color you get from burning hydrogen would tell you anything about physics even though the colors follow a pattern. Just like butterflies have patterns with the colors on their wings, “but nobody thought that one could get the basis of biology from the coloring [on the] wings of a butterfly.[1]”

However, in February of 1913, 27-year-old Niels Bohrread a book about the spectral lines of hydrogen and everything clicked.  Within ...