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The early theories of Bohr and Sommerfeld treated the electrons as orbiting particles and applied a quantum flavour to this simple idea. Sommerfelds contribution was to quantize angular momentum which allowed for ellipical orbits. The combined ideas of Bohr and Sommerfeld are often called the Bohr - Sommerfeld model. Later work by Schroedinger Dirac and others laid the foundations of the modern understanding of atomic structure electrons treating them as particles that follow a probabilistic wave function. The concept of an "orbit" circular or elliptical is not part of modern theory.

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