Atomic Physics - Significant Atomic Physicists

Significant Atomic Physicists

Pre quantum mechanics
  • John Dalton
  • Joseph von Fraunhofer
  • Johannes Rydberg
  • J.J. Thomson
Post quantum mechanics
  • Alexander Dalgarno
  • David Bates
  • Niels Bohr
  • Max Born
  • Clinton Joseph Davisson
  • Enrico Fermi
  • Charlotte Froese Fischer
  • Vladimir Fock
  • Douglas Hartree
  • Harrie S. Massey
  • Nevill Mott
  • Mike Seaton
  • John C. Slater
  • George Paget Thomson
  • Ernest M. Henley

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