Lars Vegard, atomic structure, and the periodic system

Kragh, Helge

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Title

Lars Vegard, atomic structure, and the periodic system

Author(s)

Kragh, Helge

Issue Date

2012-03-15

Keyword(s)

• History
• Chemistry
• Vegard Chem
• Periodic system element
• Atomic structure

Abstract

The Norwegian physicist and phys. chemist Lars Vegard (1880-1963) did significant work also on the borderline between chem. and physics, in particular as related to X-ray spectroscopy, crystallog., and solid state chem. In 1918, Vegard suggested configurations of all the elements and on this basis an explanation of the entire periodic system. In fact, his periodic system of that year is probably the first system of its kind, later to be improved by Niels Bohr, Edmund Stoner, and, finally, Wolfgang Pauli. This paper focuses on Vegard's early attempt, made in works between 1916 and 1920, to understand the structure of the chem. elements in terms of the electron configurations of atoms.

Publisher

Division of the History of Chemistry

ISSN

1053-4385

Type of Resource

text

Genre of Resource

article

Language

eng

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.70359/bhc2012v037p042

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