History of the institute
The establishment of an institute
1 January 1921
The establishment of an institute
Soon after being appointed professor at the University of Copenhagen in 1916, Bohr began lobbying for an institute devoted to physics.
Hafnium
1 January 1922
Hafnium
By the early 1920s Bohr was able to use his atomic theory to predict the properties of all chemical elements.
The Copenhagen Interpretation
1 January 1925
The Copenhagen Interpretation
The famous discussions between Bohr and Albert Einstein at the 1927 and 1930 Solvay conferences...
The Copenhagen conferences
1 January 1929
The Copenhagen conferences
The characteristic informal discussions between Bohr and his (most often) younger colleagues was institutionalised in 1929 with the..
Nuclear physics and biology
1 January 1930
Nuclear physics and biology
In the first half of the 1930s interest in theoretical physics gradually turned from the outer part of the atom to its centre, the nucleus.
The postwar period
1 January 1953
The postwar period
After the war, the Niels Bohr Institute saw an enormous expansion. Postwar nuclear physics at the institute reached a high point in 1953...
