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Niels Bohr. 1885 - 1962. Niels Bohr was born and educated in Copenhagen, Denmark. He lived, worked, and died there, too. But his mark on science and history was worldwide. His professional...
This theory explains the structure and actions of complex atoms. Bohr is best known for the investigations of atomic structure and also for work on radiation, which won him the 1922 Nobel Prize for physics. Bohr became a professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen in 1916.
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 ...
