The Bohr model introduced significant modifications to the Rutherford model by incorporating quantized energy levels to explain the discontinuous atomic spectra, particularly for the hydrogen atom. Bohr proposed that electrons occupy specific orbits with fixed energies, which directly accounts for the observed spectral lines. This quantization resolved the limitations of the Rutherford model, which could not explain why atoms emitted light at discrete wavelengths.
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