John L. Heilbron describes the route that led Niels Bohr to quantize electron orbits a century ago.
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Aaserud, F. & Heilbron, J. L. Love, Literature, and the Quantum Atom: Niels Bohr's 1913 Trilogy Revisited (Oxford University Press, 2013).
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Heilbron, J. The path to the quantum atom. Nature 498, 27–30 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/498027a
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