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Explain how Bohr's hydrogen atom model accounts for emission and absorption line spectra.
Calculate the energies of electronic transitions between energy levels (orbits).

In 1913, Niels Bohr, a Danish physicist, proposed a model of the atom that explained the observed line spectra for the hydrogen atom.

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