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The Bohr model of the atom was wrong. Bohr himself was well aware of it; under classical (Newtonian) physics, a charged particle such as an electron moving in a curved path should give off radiation, lose energy, and spiral into the nucleus. Clearly (according to the math) this should be happening. Clearly (since we exist and our atoms aren't all self-destructing) it was not happening. This was sort of hand waved away by positing that the electron must ... for reasons unknown ... travel only in orbits with certain path lengths, but no one knew of any reason this should be the case, and it wasn't intellectually very satisfying.

The "cloud model" ... I assume you mean here the quantum mechanical representation of the atom ... avoids this problem; the electron isn't "orbiting", but exists in a sort of mathematical limbo called an orbital, which is an eigenfunction of the Schroedinger equation.

The Bohr model wasn't really "modified" so much as "entirely replaced" by the quantum mechanical representation.

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