Biography:Niels Bohr was a Danish physicist who specialised in Atomic theory and Complementarity (quantum mechanics). He won the Nobel Prize in 1922.
Bohr established the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of Copenhagen then escaped the Nazis in 1943. Bohr worked on The Manhattan Project for the British and was one of the founders of CERN.
1912-08-01 Physicist Niels Bohr (26) weds Margrethe Norlund at a civil ceremony in Slagelse, Denmark
Historical Events
1922-12-10 Nobel prizes awarded to Danish physicist Niels Bohr for his work on the structure of atoms, Francis William Aston for Chemistry and a Peace Prize to Fridtjof Nansen for his work on behalf of displaced victims of World War I at a ceremony in Copenhagen
1941-09-17 Famous meeting between Danish physicist Niels Bohr and German head of nuclear energy project Werner Heisenberg in Copenhagen to discuss nuclear weapons (date approximate)
Quotes by Niels Bohr
"No, no, you're not thinking, you're just being logical."
"A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself."
Camillo Golgi
Emil Fischer
Johannes van der Waals
C.V. Raman
John von Neumann
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