Bohr, Niels Henrik David
World Encyclopedia | Date: 2005
Bohr, Niels Henrik David (1885–1962) Danish physicist, a major contributor to
quantum theory. Bohr worked with J. J.
Thomson and Ernest
Rutherford in Britain before teaching theoretical physics at the University of Copenhagen. He escaped from German-occupied Denmark during World War II, and worked briefly on developing the atom bomb in the USA. He later returned to Copenhagen and worked for international cooperation. Bohr used the quantum theory to explain the spectrum of hydrogen and in the 1920s helped develop the ‘standard model’ of
quantum theory, known as the Copenhagen Interpretation. He received the 1922 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on atomic structure, and gained the first Atoms for Peace Award in 1957.
http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1922/bohr-bio.html
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