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Discovery of Electrons

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1913Date range
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1913

Niels Bohr1913

Science / Physics

In 1913, Danish physicist Niels Bohr postulated that electrons resided in quantized energy states, with the energy determined by the angular momentum of the electrons orbits about the nucleus

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Niels Bohr

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