Niels Bohr
October 7, 1885 – November 18, 1962
Danish physicist who developed the quantum model of the atom; Nobel Prize in Physics 1922.
Biography
Niels Bohr was a Danish physicist who made basic contributions to atomic structure and quantum theory. In 1913 he proposed a model of the atom in which electrons move in fixed orbits and emit light when they jump between them. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.
His institute in Copenhagen became a world centre of theoretical physics, and he developed the idea of complementarity and, with others, the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics.
In 1943 he escaped occupied Denmark and worked with the Manhattan Project. After the war he called for openness and international control of nuclear weapons and helped found CERN.
Affiliations
Education
- Jan 1, 1903 – Jan 1, 1911 University of Copenhagen
- Trinity College, Cambridge
- University of Cambridge
Employment
- from Jan 1, 1914 Victoria University of Manchester
- Niels Bohr Institute
