The Bohr model could account for the series of discrete wavelengths in the emission spectrum of hydrogen. Niels Bohr proposed that light radiated from hydrogen atoms only when an electron made a transition from an outer orbit to one closer to the nucleus. The energy lost by the electron in the abrupt transition is precisely the same as the energy of the quantum of emitted light.
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