Niels Bohr's Timeline

  • DOB

    Born in Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • Who is Neils Bohr?

    Neils Bohr or his full name Niels Henrik David Bohr was a physicist who is really the most well-known physicists there is today. He was the one who created the " problem of atomic and molecular structure. The most important work he has done to this day is the " development of quantum theory physics.
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    Early life

    When to the university of Copenhagen in 1903 and obtained his doctorate in 1911. He had a wife and a total of six children whom where all boys.
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    Importance of the Quantum Theory

    Bohr did not create the Quantum Theory by himself, he had an assistant by the name of Werner Heisenberg whom created the " old quantum theory". Bohr states that " on the atomic level a physical phenomenon expresses itself differently depending on the experimental setup used to obserev it. Light appears sometimes as waves and sometimes as particles.
  • Nobel Prize

    Niels Bohr received the 1975 Nobel Prize for physics in the reconition of the collective model of the attomic nucleus proposed in the early 1950's.
  • DOD

    Neils Bohr died in copenhagen Denmark