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Niels Henrick David Bohr
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Copenhagen University
At Copenhagen University he came under the mentorship of Professor C. Christiansen, who was a remarkable physicist. At that time Christiansen was studying electromagnetic radiation in particles and optical dispersion. “Niels Bohr.” Atomic Heritage Foundation, Atomic Heritage, 10 Dec. 2019, www.atomicheritage.org/profile/niels-bohr. -
Published in Transactions of the Royal Society
While still a student, he took up a theoretical investigation of the surface tension by means of oscillating fluid jets. He carried out this work in his fathers laboratory. He received a gold medal and ended up getting published in the Transactions of the Royal Society. Niels Bohr – Biographical. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Prize Outreach AB 2021. Thu. 21 Oct 2021. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1922/bohr/biographical/ -
Nobel Prize for Science
Bohr's work on the structure of an atom gained him recognition and earned him the Nobel Prize in 1922. His postulations were that only discrete orbits were allowed inside atoms and during these orbits these atoms do not radiate energy. Like the solar system, but on a much smaller scale, electrons (planets for the analogy) don't skip from one orbit to another, but revolve in a fixed orbit around the nucleus (the sun). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1LDJUu4nko -
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Bohr's Concept of Complementarity
Bohr's major contribution to the philosophy of science was his work on the concept of complementarity. This change of attitude affected not only physics, but the broader scientific community as well. He discussed these views in essays written between 1933 until his death in 1962. He found that electrons are sometimes wavelike and sometimes particle-like. This concept shows that certain properties cannot be observed or measured simultaneously, which had broad implications philosophically.