THE ATOM
AND THE BOHR THEORY
OF ITS STRUCTURE

Original Title:
“Bohr’s Atomteori, almenfatteligt fremstillet”

Translated from the Danish by R. B. Lindsay,
Fellow of the American-Scandinavian Foundation
,
1923, and Rachel T. Lindsay

THE ATOM AND
THE BOHR THEORY
OF ITS STRUCTURE

An Elementary Presentation

BY

H. A. KRAMERS

LECTURER AT THE INSTITUTE OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS
IN THE UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN

AND

HELGE HOLST

LIBRARIAN AT THE ROYAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE OF COPENHAGEN

WITH A FOREWORD BY

SIR ERNEST RUTHERFORD, F.R.S.

NEW YORK
ALFRED A. KNOPF
1923

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY
MORRISON AND GIBB LTD., EDINBURGH