Editing 1924 in science (section)

==Physics==
* [[Satyendra Nath Bose|S. N. Bose]] and [[Albert Einstein]] publish papers in ''[[Zeitschrift für Physik]]'' applying [[Bose–Einstein statistics]] to [[photon|light quanta]] and to atomic models and predicting existence of the [[Bose–Einstein condensate]].
* [[Edmund Clifton Stoner|E. C. Stoner]] publishes a paper<ref>{{cite journal|first=E. C.|last=Stoner|title=The distribution of electrons among atomic levels|journal=[[Philosophical Magazine]]|series=6th ser.|volume=48|issue=286|year=1924|pages=719–736|doi=10.1080/14786442408634535}}</ref> pointing out that for a given value of the [[principal quantum number]] (n), the number of energy levels of a single electron in the [[alkali metal]] spectra in an external magnetic field, where all [[degenerate energy level]]s are separated, is equal to the number of electrons in the closed shell of the [[rare gas]]es for the same value of n. This leads to discovery of the [[Pauli exclusion principle]] which [[Wolfgang Pauli]] first proposes in a letter at the end of the year.
* [[Louis de Broglie]] introduces the wave-model of atomic structure, based on the ideas of [[wave–particle duality]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Louis de Broglie: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1929|work=Nobel Lectures, Physics 1922–1941|publisher=Elsevier|year=1965|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1929/broglie-bio.html|accessdate=2007-02-28}}</ref>