![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080917095933im_/http://nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field Physicists Create Millimeter-sized 'Bohr Atom'
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July 1, 2008
![physics graphic](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080917095933im_/http://nsf.gov/news/other_images/1physics_l.gif) | Nearly a century after Danish physicist Niels Bohr offered his planet-like model of the hydrogen atom, a Rice University-led team of physicists has created giant, millimeter-sized atoms that resemble it more closely than any other experimental realization yet achieved. The research is available online in Physical Review Letters. Full story |
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