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Date of Birth
Niels Henrik David Bohr was born on October 7, 1885 in Denmark’s capital city, Copenhagen. -
Nobel Peace Prize
In 1922, Niels Bohr received the Nobel Peace Prize in Physics for "for his services in the investigation of the structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from them."
Bohr's model showed positively charged protons and neutral neutrons are tightly held in the nucleus, or center, of the atom and negatively charged electrons move around the nucleus in defined orbits.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1922. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2020. -
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The Solvay Congresses
The 1927 conference on quantum mechanics was held to discuss how the many seemingly contradictory observations of Copenhagen interpretation could be reconciled. Einstein disagreed with Bohr. He argued that "an electron was an electron, and just because someone wasn't looking at it, it was still there". Until Einstein's death some three decades later, Bohr and Einstein continued to debate. -
Complementarity
Complementarity was a concept that Bohr felt could explain many great philosophical issues. This was in the form of wave-particle duality, suggesting that light could be considered a particle and an atom but not simultaneously. He said that it would be up to the scientist to decide how to observe it. This caused many debates among the physics field and philosophers.
"Niels Bohr." Famous Scientists. famousscientists.org. 19 Dec. 2015. Web. 9/24/2020 <www.famousscientists.org/niels-bohr/>. -
Date of Death
Niels Bohr died aged 77 of sudden heart failure in his home in Copenhagen on November 18, 1962. His ashes were buried in Copenhagen’s Assistens Cemetery near the graves of his parents and his brother Harald.
