Who named the k shell orbit and why?

Answer 1

Well, honey, the K shell orbit was named by good ol' Charles Barkla back in 1914. He named it after the German word "Kante", which means edge, because it was the first shell in the electron configuration. So, there you have it, a little history lesson with a side of sass.

Answer 2

why the shells of an orbit is name as k,l,m,n

The names of the electron shells come from a fellow named Charles G. Barkla, a spectroscopist who studied the X-rays that are emitted by atoms when they are hit with high energy electrons. He noticed that atoms appeared to emit two types of X-rays. The two types of X-rays differed in energy and Barkla originally called the higher energy X-ray type A and the lower energy X-ray type B. He later renamed these two types K and L since he realized that the highest energy X-rays produced in his experiments might not be the highest energy X-ray possible. He wanted to make certain that there was room to add more discoveries without ending up with an alphabetical list of X-rays whose energies were mixed up.

As it turns out, the K type X-ray is the highest energy X-ray an atom can emit. It is produced when an electron in the innermost shell is knocked free and then recaptured. This innermost shell is now called the K-shell, after the label used for the X-ray. Barkla won the 1917 Nobel Prize for Physics for this work.

Answer 3

The concept of electron shells was proposed by Niels Bohr in 1913 in his model of the atom, where electrons orbit the nucleus in fixed energy levels or shells. The letter "K" was used to denote the innermost electron shell, followed by the letters "L," "M," etc. in order of increasing distance from the nucleus. The naming convention of electron shells in an atom is based on the historical development of atomic theory and the ordering of subshells by energy level.