This 'solar system' model of the atom is the way that most people think about atoms today. It is known as the Rutherford-Bohr model of atomic structure.

Niels Bohr 1885 - 1962. Niels Bohr was born and educated in Copenhagen, Denmark. ... collapsing the atom. Bohr proposed adding to the model the new idea of quanta put forth by Max Planck in 1901.

Education News: Niels Bohr's Nobel Lecture on December 11, 1922, titled The Structure of the Atom, is one of the most significant contributions to our understanding o.

THE beautiful conception which inspires and co-ordinates practically the whole of modern atomic physics is the atomic model of Rutherford and Bohr. Its essential feature-the nucleus-was first put ...