J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1927, 49 (3), pp 765–790
DOI: 10.1021/ja01402a019
Publication Date: March 1927
The Wave-Mechanics Picture of the Atom
In recent years the old quantum theory, associated principally with the names of Bohr and Sommerfeld, encountered a large number of dificulties, all of which vanished before the new quantum mechanics of Heisenberga2 Because of its abstruse and difficultly interpretable mathematical foundation, Heisenberg’s quantum mechanics cannot be easily applied to the relatively complicated problems of the structures and properties of many-electron atoms and of molecules; in particular is this true for chemical problems, which usually do not permit simple dynamical formulation in terms of nuclei and electrons, but instead require to be treated with the aid of atomic and molecular models. Accordingly, it is especially gratifying that Schrodinger’s interpretation of his wave mechanics3 provides a simple and satisfactory atomic model, more closely related to the chemist’s atom than to that of the old quantum theory.
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