neils bohr
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He was a Danish physicist who stated that electrons could only orbit the nucleus in successively larger orbits around the nucleus. The outer orbits could hold more electrons. The electrons in the outermost shell determine the properties of the atom. He also inferred that when an electron moves form an outer orbit to an inner orbit it emits a quantum of energy, a photon, in the form of light.