Niels Bohr

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Niels Bohr was a pioneering Danish physicist whose model of the atom and foundational work in quantum theory profoundly shaped modern physics.

Aliases (2)
  • Bohr ×1
  • Niels Henrik David Bohr ×1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Nobel laureate in Physics
human
physicist
theoretical physicist
academicDegree PhD in physics
alias Nicholas Baker
awardReceived Copley Medal
Franklin Medal
Max Planck Medal
Nobel Prize in Physics
birthCountry Denmark
birthDate 1885-10-07
birthPlace Copenhagen
causeOfDeath heart failure
child Aage Niels Bohr
Harald Bohr Jr.
countryOfCitizenship Denmark
deathCountry Denmark
deathDate 1962-11-18
deathPlace Copenhagen
doctoralAdvisor Christian Christiansen
educatedAt University of Copenhagen
era 20th-century physics
familyName Bohr
father Christian Bohr
fieldOfWork atomic physics
quantum mechanics
theoretical physics
founded Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Copenhagen
fullName Niels Henrik David Bohr
givenName Niels
influenced Aage Niels Bohr
John Archibald Wheeler
Lev Landau
Werner Heisenberg
Wolfgang Pauli
influencedBy Albert Einstein
Ernest Rutherford
Max Planck
knownFor Bohr model of the atom
Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics
foundational contributions to quantum theory
liquid drop model of the atomic nucleus
principle of complementarity
languageSpoken Danish
English
German
mother Ellen Adler Bohr
movement Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics
nobelPrizeCategory Physics
nobelPrizeMotivation for his services in the investigation of the structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from them
nobelPrizeYear 1922
notableIdea Bohr–Einstein debates
complementarity principle
correspondence principle
positionHeld Director of the Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Copenhagen
Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Copenhagen
religion Lutheranism
residence Copenhagen
sibling Harald Bohr
spouse Margrethe Nørlund Bohr
tookPartIn Manhattan Project
workInstitution Trinity College, Cambridge
University of Copenhagen
Victoria University of Manchester

Referenced by (57)
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Hendrik Anthony Kramers
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Otto Laporte
Thomas Kuhn
Werner Heisenberg
Wolfgang Pauli
Yakir Aharonov
influencedBy
Alfred Loomis
Otto Frisch
Victor F. Weisskopf
Yoshio Nishina
collaboratedWith
Christian Christiansen
J. J. Thomson
Max Planck
On a Heuristic Point of View Concerning the Production and Transformation of Light
influenced
Bohr model of the atom
Niels Bohr Institute
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
UNESCO Niels Bohr Medal
namedAfter
Bakerian Medal and Prize
Copley Medal
Franklin Medal
Hughes Medal
notableRecipient
Los Alamos Laboratory
Manhattan Engineer District
employed
Humboldt University of Berlin
University of Copenhagen
hasNotableAlumni
Harald Bohr Jr.
Margrethe Nørlund Bohr
relative
Margrethe Nørlund Bohr
associatedWith
Ellen Adler Bohr
child
Now It Can Be Told: The Story of the Manhattan Project
describesPerson
Physics
developedBy
Niels Bohr ("Bohr")
familyName
Harald Bohr Jr.
father
Niels Bohr Institute
foundedBy
Niels Bohr ("Niels Henrik David Bohr")
fullName
Order Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts
hasNotableRecipient
Matteucci Medal
hasRecipient
Tuxedo Park private laboratory
hostedScientist
UNESCO Niels Bohr Medal
inTheSpiritOf
Project Y
involvedScientist
Tube Alloys programme
keyPerson
Manhattan Project
keyScientist
Bohr–Einstein debates
mainParticipants
Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics
mainProponent
Philosophical Magazine
notableAuthor
Nobel Prize in Physics
notableLaureate
Gifford Lectures
notableLecturer
British Mission to the Manhattan Project
notableMember
Institute for Advanced Study
notableScholar
Niels Bohr Institute
notableStaff
Christian Christiansen
notableStudent
Bohr model of the atom
proposedBy
Margrethe Nørlund Bohr
spouse
Ernest Rutherford
student
Yoshio Nishina
studiedUnder

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