Atoms Quote by Johannes Stark

“By recognizing that the chemical atom is composed of single separable electric quanta, humanity has taken a great step forward in the investigation of the natural world.”

Johannes Stark

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For under certain conditions the chemical atoms emit light waves of a specific length or oscillation frequency - their familiar characteristic spectra - and…

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The emitters of the spectral series are without exception single atoms, not compounds of atoms.

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The discovery of various phenomena has led to a recognition of the fact that the chemical atom is an individual which again is itself…

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With this in mind, for some twenty years I have set myself as my particular task the experimental investigation of the connexion between change…

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The removal of an electron from the surface of an atom - that is, the ionization of the atom - means a fundamental structural…

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It is more likely that more than a century will pass before we know the structure of the chemical atoms as thoroughly as we…

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Moreover, the abundance of chemical compounds and their importance in daily life hindered the chemist from investigating the question, in what does the individuality…

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The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks.

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At the head of these new discoveries and insights comes the establishment of the facts that electricity is composed of discrete particles of equal…

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Along a series of lines running from longer to shorter wavelengths the effect of the electric field becomes greater as the serial numbers increase…

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In my view the structure of the whole atom was that of an individual, with all its parts interconnected, and the emission of a…

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If the experimental physicist has already done a great deal of work in this field, nevertheless the theoretical physicist has still hardly begun to…

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