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Niels Bohr Life
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Bohr Professorship
In 1916, Bohr was appointed professor of physics in the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. He lobbied for many years for the creation of the Institute of Theoretical Physics and was approved in 1921. in 1965, on what would have been his 80th birthday, the institute was renamed the Neils Bohr Institute. “News and Articles on Science and Technology.” Phys.org, phys.org/partners/niels-bohr-institute/. -
Bohr's Correspondence Principle
Bohr postulates that in Quantum Mechanics that the use of Newton's Classical Mechanics are interchangeable with certain limitations (large energy, large mass, or extremely long lengths). When dealing with smaller objects the use of Newtonian law will give the same results. With this principle we were still able to put rockets in space and a man on the moon. Please watch the short YouTube video link below for a quick tutorial.
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Niels Bohr Awarded Nobel Prize
Niels Bohr was awarded the 1922 Nobel Prize for Physics for his work on atomic structures. He continued to work in quantum physics after this esteemed award and published Bohr's concept of complementarity which posited that "physical properties on an atomic level would be viewed differently depending on experimental parameters."(Niels Bohr) Niels Bohr – Biographical. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2020. Thu. 19 Mar 2020. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1922/bohr/biographical/ -
Bohr's Complementarity Principle
While working with Werner Heisenberg, Bohr's created this principle to the science philosophy community that phenomena like light can be viewed as waves and particles but not both at the same time. "Together, however, they present a fuller description than either of the two taken alone" (Brittannica) https://youtu.be/EUdBxngtw1o “Complementarity Principle.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 21 Dec. 1998, www.britannica.com/science/complementarity-principle.
