Franck-Hertz Experimentlasers.ppt

* Franck-Hertz Experiment lasers “We thought it [the laser] might have some uses, but we had no application in mind. If we had, it might have hampered us…”—A. Schawlow, one of the inventors of the laser The Franck-Hertz* Experiment (1914) This famous experiment confirmed the existence of Bohr’s atomic energy levels. Accelerated electrons colliding with atoms give up energy to atomic electrons, provided their energy is sufficient to promote an atomic electron from one energy level to a higher one. *1925 Nobel Prize for Franck and Hertz. And no, not the Hertz of Hz fame. Gustav Hertz,