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Niel Bohr was born on October 7 1885. -
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Niel Bohr receives his master's degree from Copenhagen University sometime in 1909.
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Niel Bohr later receives his doctorate from Copenhagen university sometime in 1911.
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NIel Bohr gets married to Margrethe Nørlund in 1912. They were said to be a happy couple and ended up having six kids, all of which were boys. -
During 1913, Niel Bohr proposed a new theory for what the hydrogen atom looked like and how its energy levels functioned based on quantum theory. His new idea opposed the old idea of what atoms looked like and how they function. Niel constructed his new theory by combining the findings of his colleague Rutherford with ideas from Max Planck to formulate his own version of the hydrogen atom. This theory would later earn him a Nobel prize in physics. -
Niel Bohr returned to Copenhagen University to teach as a Physics professor. -
In 1920, Niel Bohr founded the institute of Theoretical Physics at Copenhagen University, which he headed for the rest of his life. -
Niel Bohr received a Nobel prize in physics for his work and research on atomic structure. -
In 1939, Niel Bohr's liquid droplet theory, which states that a nucleus of an atom can be represented by a water droplet in complex ways, was used to better understand the idea of nuclear fission when the splitting of uranium was discovered. -
Niel Bohr unfortunately passed away on November 18, 1962