Talk:Atomic orbital model

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[edit] Page Created

I created this article because there wasn't really any background/simplified explanation of atomic orbitals. The ideas was that the atomic orbital and electron configuration pages could be devoted to those particular topics, and that this page could give a more detailed description of how the model arose, and hopefully be more useful to people who do not understand quantum mechanics, but want to know about atomic orbitals. That way, atomic orbital and electron configuration can contain more advanced QM material, and this page can contain more hand-waving descriptions. Mattopia 07:02, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Look at German page

I find this page very useful and specifc, however bad it's condition may be.

It should be named "atomic model" or "history of atomic models".

Compare to the German page "http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atommodell", you don't need to know any German to get the idea, you will understand words like "Rutherford" or "Orbitalmodell". At least you can borrow some illustrations.

The German page is linked to be equivalent to "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_theory", which is in my opinion similar but different.

What made me look for this page was actually a history of the development of atomic models: How simple models were replaced by more accurate models; How science proves itself insufficient, improving itself. Some wiki-guru should sort this out, but please retain this aspect.

dierk.chaos.ohlerich —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.39.204.126 (talk) 02:06, 15 February 2008 (UTC)