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Early life
Niels Bohr was born on Ocotber 7, 1885 in Copenhagen Denmark. His father was a professor of physiology at the Univerity of Copenhagen. His mother came from a wealthy Danish Jewish family. -
College
Bohr enrolled in Copenhagen Ubiversity with his major in physics. He studied under professor Christian Christiansen. -
Physics
Bohr traveled to England where he met J.J. Thomson of the Cavendish Laboratory and Trinity College, Cambridge. Bohr used Ernest Rutherford's model of the atom and revised it later on. -
Work
Most of Bohr's theoretical work about structure of atoms and molecules was done in England. -
Planetary Model
Bohr introudced the Planetary model which showed properties of atomic and molecular structure in a simplified picture of an atom. -
Institute of Physics
Bohr began a campaign to establish an institute of theoretical physics. He gained the support of the Danish government and the Carlsberg Foundation. -
Nobel Prize
Bohr was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his investigation of the structue of atoms and molecules.
