Article ID: CBB001422205

The Franck-Hertz Experiments, 1911--1914 Experimentalists in Search of a Theory (2014)

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In 1911, James Franck and Gustav Hertz began a collaboration to investigate the nature of collisions of slow electrons with gas molecules that led to a series of carefully planned and executed experiments, culminating in their discovery of inelastic collisions of electrons with mercury vapor atoms in 1914. This paper tells the story of their collaboration and the eventual reinterpretation of their results as a confirmation of Niels Bohr's new atomic theory, largely as a result of experiments done in North America during the Great War.

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Authors & Contributors
Hon, Giora
Monti, Maria Teresa
Navarro, Jaume
Bauer, Simon H.
Bowden, Mary Ellen
Genin, Christophe
Journals
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Physics in Perspective
Annalen der Physik
Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences
Bulletin for the History of Chemistry
European Physical Journal H
Publishers
Royal Society of Chemistry
Cambridge University Press
Franco Angeli
Verlag für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und der Technik
Concepts
Atomic, nuclear, and particle physics
Experiments and experimentation
Chemistry
Electrons
Physics
Gases
People
Franck, James
Hertz, Gustav
Bohr, Niels Henrik David
Dalton, John
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent
Spallanzani, Lazzaro
Time Periods
20th century, early
18th century
19th century
20th century
20th century, late
21st century
Places
Great Britain
Europe
Germany
Japan
North America
Institutions
Cavendish Laboratory
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