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Apr 29, 2024 · Niels Bohr (born October 7, 1885, Copenhagen, Denmark—died November 18, 1962, Copenhagen) was a Danish physicist who is generally regarded as one of the foremost physicists of the 20th century. He was the first to apply the quantum concept, which restricts the energy of a system to certain discrete values, to the problem of atomic and ...
- Finn Aaserud
Niels Bohr. Niels Henrik David Bohr ( Danish: [ˈne̝ls ˈpoɐ̯ˀ]; 7 October 1885 – 18 November 1962) was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. Bohr was also a philosopher and a promoter of scientific research.
Aug 29, 2017 · Niels Bohr won a Nobel Prize for the idea that an atom is a small, positively charged nucleus surrounded by orbiting electrons. ... Bohr was the first to discover that electrons travel in separate ...
- Elizabeth Peterson
Apr 2, 2014 · Niels Bohr was a Danish physicist who discovered the quantum nature of the atom and the complementarity of light and matter. He won the 1922 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on atomic structures and radiation emission. He also called for peaceful applications of atomic energy and worked on the Manhattan Project in the US.
May 2, 2024 · Bohr model, description of the structure of atoms, especially that of hydrogen, proposed (1913) by the Danish physicist Niels Bohr. The Bohr model of the atom , a radical departure from earlier, classical descriptions, was the first that incorporated quantum theory and was the predecessor of wholly quantum-mechanical models.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Lived 1885 - 1962. Niels Bohr completely transformed our view of the atom and of the world. Realizing that classical physics fails catastrophically when things are atom-sized or smaller, he remodeled the atom so electrons occupied 'allowed' orbits around the nucleus while all other orbits were forbidden. In doing so he founded quantum mechanics.
Niels Bohr, a founding member of CERN, introduced the Bohr atom in 1913, a quantum twist of Rutherford's model. He explained the spectrum of hydrogen and won the Nobel prize in physics for his work.
