Niels Bohr received the Nobel Prize in physics in 1922 for the quantum mechanical model of the atom that he had developed a decade earlier, the most significant step forward in scientific understanding of atomic structure since English physicist John...

Niles Bohr received the Nobel Prize in physics in 1922 for the quantum mechanical model of the atom that he had developed a decade earlier, the most significant step forward in scientific understanding of atomic structure since English physicist John...

The Danish physicist Niels Henrik David Bohr (1885-1962) formulated the first successful explanation of some major lines of the hydrogen spectrum. The Bohr theory of the atom has become the foundation of modern atomic physics. Niels Bohr was born on...

Niels Henrik David Bohr was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, on October 7, 1885, the second of three children born to Christian and Ellen Adler Bohr. Bohr's mother was a member of a wealthy Jewish banking family, and his father was a talented professor of...

Bohr was born in Copenhagen on October 7, 1885. He was the son of Christian Bohr, a professor of physiology at the University of Copenhagen. Niels entered the university in 1903 and studied there until he received his doctorate in 1911. He is reputed...