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PHIL202 W3 Niels Bohr

By KKalkofen

  • Born

    Niels Bohr was born in Copenhagen, Denmark

  • Nobel Prize

    Nobel Prize
    Niels Bohr spent many of his early years traveling and studying the works of other renowned scientists including Sir J.J. Thompson and Ernest Rutherford. During this time Niels Bohr was able to calculate, using the Planck constant, how atoms did not collapse due to radiation as previously thought they should. Niels Bohr – Nobel Lecture. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2020. Sat. 24 Oct 2020. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1922/bohr/lecture/

  • Copenhagen Interpretation

    From 1913 to 1925 Neils Bohr while working with Werner Heisenberg developed the Copenhagen interpretation which resulted in one of Bohr's philosophical ideas that it is the human perception of the reality of nature that caused errors in results. Faye, Jan, "Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2019 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2019/entries/qm-copenhagen/

  • Complementarity principle

    Bohr developed the Complementarity principle which begins to explain that the behavior of light and electrons is sometimes wave-like and sometimes particle-like and that it is impossible to observe both at the same time.
    The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica, "Complementarity principle", Encyclopedia Britannica, December 21, 1998, URL=https://www.britannica.com/science/complementarity-principle

  • Work on atomic nuclei

    Work on atomic nuclei
    During Bohr's time as the head of the Institute for Theoretical Physics, he paved the path for the future discoveries of neutrons and nuclear fission and fusion using "classical" explanations of the nucleus. Niels Bohr – Biographical. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2020. Sun. 25 Oct 2020. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1922/bohr/biographical/

  • Death

    During Neils Bohr's life, he contributed both to the development of scientific study and to the advancement of scientific theory. Some of his philosophical theories on quantum entanglement are both still highly debated but also experimentally confirmable. It is perhaps the uncertain nature of quantum mechanics that keep the debate going, or perhaps humanity just has not become technologically capable to understand the universe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tafGL02EUOA