BY LINUS PAULING
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RECEIVED JANUARY 25, 1927 PUBLISHED MARCH 9, 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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http://pubs.acs.org.sci-hub.cc/doi/abs/10.1021/ja01402a019
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