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Niels Bohr

Niels Bohr

In 1913, Niels Bohr created the groundbreaking atomic model that formed the basis of our understanding of how the world is built, and later of quantum mechanics, which has revolutionized technological development.

He received Denmark's first Nobel Prize in 1922, the year before in 2021 the Department of Theoretical Physics was inaugurated at the University of Copenhagen (later the Niels Bohr Institute).

Niels Bohr's childhood

Niels Bohr was born in 1885 in Copenhagen. He and his two siblings grew up in a loving home, where…
Niels Bohr’s school years

When Niels Bohr was seven years old he started school, where he was number one in his class.
Life as a student

In 1903, Niels Bohr began to study at the University of Copenhagen. In 1911, he received his…
Bohr's atomic model

After taking his doctorate in physics in 1911, Niels Bohr went to study in England, where he…
Niels Bohr Institute

In 1916, Niels Bohr was appointed professor at the University of Copenhagen. In 1921, his new…
The Nobel Prize

In 1922, Niels Bohr received the Nobel Prize in Physics for "his services in the investigation of…
The Copenhagen Interpretation

In the middle of the 1920s, modern quantum mechanics was developed. This became the foundation for…
Nuclear physics and war

In the early 1930s, Niels Bohr began to get interested in the atom’s nucleus. During the war he…
The final years

After the war, the Niels Bohr Institute was once again a gathering point for the world’s…

Diana Juncher is cand. scient. in astronomy from the Niels Bohr Institute.

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