- The
vortex theory of the
atom was a 19th-century
attempt by
William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin) to
explain why the
atoms recently discovered by chemists...
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Vortex theory may
refer to:
Mechanical explanations of
gravitation Vortex theory of the
atom History of knot
theory Insect flight#Leading edge
vortex...
- 1600-0498.2002.440102.x.
Retrieved 9
March 2019. Thomson, Wm. (1867). "On
Vortex Atoms".
Proceedings of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh. 6: 94–105. doi:10...
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composed of
atoms. The
structure of the
atom was discussed, and by the end of the
century the
leading model: 175 was the
vortex theory of the
atom, proposed...
- "On
Vortex Atoms".
Proceedings of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh. 6: 94–105. doi:10.1017/S0370164600045430. Kragh,
Helge (2002). "The
Vortex Atom: A Victorian...
- in Iraq (see
images on bottom) Thomson, Sir
William (Lord Kelvin), On
Vortex Atoms,
Proceedings of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh, Vol. VI, 1867, pp. 94–105...
- of
Colorado Boulder using rubidium atoms.
Later that year,
Wolfgang Ketterle of MIT
produced a BEC
using sodium atoms. In 2001 Cornell, Wieman, and Ketterle...
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atomic models were
generally speculative. Even the
concept of
atoms, let
alone atoms with
internal structure,
faced opposition from some scientists.: 2 ...
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Kelvin suggested that the
vortex rings of a
perfect fluid discovered by
Hermann von
Helmholtz represented "the only true
atoms". Then
shortly before 1900...
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experimental work on
Rydberg atoms relied on the use of
collimated beams of fast
electrons incident on ground-state
atoms.
Inelastic scattering processes...