1. For a survey of the reception of the Bohr atom in England, Germany, and the United States, see Helge Kragh, “The Early Reception of Bohr’s Atomic Theory (1913-1915). A Preliminary Investigation,” RePoss: Research Publications on Science Studies 9, Department of Science Studies, University of Aarhus. URL: http://www.ivs.au.dk/reposs .
2. Niels Bohr, “On the Constitution of Atoms and Molecules,” Philosophical Magazine 26 (1913), 1-25; Part II. “Systems containing only a Single Nucleus,” ibid., 476-502; Part III. “Systems containing Several Nuclei,” ibid., 857-875; reprinted in L. Rosenfeld, ed., Niels Bohr: On the Constitution of Atoms and Molecules (Copenhagen: Munksgaard and New York: W.A. Benjamin, 1963), pp. 1-25, 28-54, 55-77; and Ulrich Hoyer, ed., Niels Bohr Collected Works. Vol. 2. Work on Atomic Physics (1912-1917) (Amsterdam, New York, Oxford: North-Holland, 1981), pp. 161-185, 188-214, 215-233. Historical accounts include John L. Heilbron and Thomas S. Kuhn, “The Genesis of the Bohr Atom,” Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences 1 (1969), 211-290; U. Hoyer, Die Geschichte der Bohrschen Atomtheorie (Weinheim: Physik Verlag, 1974); J. L. Heilbron, “Rutherford-Bohr Atom,” American Journal of Physics 49 (1981), 222-231; Jagdish Mehra and Helmut Rechenberg, The Historical Development of Quantum Theory. Vol. 1. Part 1. The Quantum Theory of Planck, Einstein, Bohr and Sommerfeld: Its Foundation and the Rise of Its Difficulties 1900-1925 (New York, Heidelberg, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1982), pp. 181-230; and Abraham Pais, Niels Bohr’s Times, In Physics, Philosophy, and Polity (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991), pp. 132-159.
3. Heilbron, “Rutherford-Bohr Atom” (ref. 2), p. 230.
4. J.H. Jeans, “Discussion on Radiation,” Report of the Eighty-Third Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science Birmingham 1913 (London: John Murray, 1914), pp. 376-386, on p. 379.
5. Ibid.