was incomplete.Bohr begins his first paper on his atomic model by describing Rutherford's atom as consisting of a small, dense, positively charged nucleus attracting negatively charged electrons.

Atomic spectra

By the early twentieth century, it was expected that a successful model of the atom should account for the many atomic spectral lines. These lines were summarized in empirical formulas by Johann Balmer and Johannes Rydberg.

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