The quantization of the atom in three acts
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
zbMATH Open document ID: 0999.01021
author: J. S. Rigden
publication date: 2002-12-02T00:00:00Z
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A60
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 81-03
zbMATH DE Number: 1656413
zbMATH Keywords: quantum mechanics
zbMATH Keywords: Heisenberg
zbMATH Keywords: Balmer series
zbMATH Keywords: Bohr
zbMATH Keywords: Pauli
zbMATH Keywords: hydrogen atom
zbMATH Keywords: Schrödinger
MaRDI profile type: Publication
OpenAlex ID: W2083310865
title: The quantization of the atom in three acts
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DOI: 10.1002/1521-3889(200102)10:1/2%3C177::AID-ANDP177%3E3.0.CO;2-C
full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/1521-3889(200102)10:1/2%3C177::aid-andp177%3E3.0.co
published in: Annalen der Physik. 8th Series
review text: The author presents the three different approaches that led to the explanation of the Balmer series of hydrogen. The first application of the quantum concept in order to resolve the problem of atomic spectra was made by Niels Bohr. Convinced that Planck's quantum was crucial to an understanding of the atom, Bohr published his model of a quantized atom in 1913. A coherent theory of the quantized atom was provided by Heisenberg in 1925. Heisenberg's mathematical formalism was embedded in the language of matrices by Born and Jordan, and with this knowledge, Pauli successfully applied the new quantum mechanics to the hydrogen atom. The third approach to the quantization of the atom was provided by Schrödinger in 1926. This version of quantum theory was called wave mechanics in order to distinguish it from Heisenberg's matrix-based formalism. The paper ends with an outlook on the relativistic quantization of the atom and especially on the contributions made by Dirac, Lamb, and Bethe.
reviewed by: Andreas Kleinert
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1656413