Is the Electron System a Misinterpretation of Bohr?

Helmut Albert

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„Ist das Elektronensystem eine FehlinterpretationBohrs?“ (2021)

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Inhalt

1.      Atomic Structure and Atomic Mass

2.      State of Science

3.      Mendeleev's and Meyer's Theses

4.      Bohr´s Atomic Theory

5.      The Checkerboard-like Atomic Structure

6.      Bibliography

7.      List of Figures

8.      Biography

1. Atomic Structure and Atomic Mass

Until today there is a contradiction between the views of Dmitri Mendeleev (1834-1907) and Lothar Meyer (1830-1895) versus those of Niels Bohr (1885-1962), on the cause of the chemical properties of the elements, which has never been addressed. While Bohr and with him the present science, assumed that the chemical properties of the elements depend on almost massless electrons of the atomic shell, Dmitri Mendeleev and Lothar Meyer saw it quite differently. In contrast, they postulated that the chemical properties depend on the atomic mass. However, as we know today, the carriers of the atomic mass are not the electrons, but the protons and neutrons. Therefore the question arises whether there is a proton-neutron system instead of the electron system, on which the chemical properties and valences of the elements depend?

At the beginning of the paper, the state of science concerning the periodic table and the atomic structure is presented. Thereby the shell model, or orbital model and the Bohr atomic model are shown as the atomic models which are decisive for today's atomic conception. Likewise, the nuclear shell theory, which was only published in 1948, is presented, which refers exclusively to the atomic nucleus. An important aspect of the atomic nucleus and its nucleons is the atomic mass, which is also examined in this chapter.

This is followed by a discussion of the content and significance of the periodic table of the elements. It is shown that the periodic table of the elements is not only a clear table of the elements, but can be understood as a starting point for a logically comprehensible atomic structure. The focus is also on the theses of Mendeleev and Meyer that the chemical properties of the elements depend on the atomic mass. Thereby the question arises, how their statements and theses are to be interpreted with today's knowledge about the basic building blocks of the so-called atomic nucleus?