Niels Henrik David Bohr was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 7 October 1885, the second of three children of Christian Bohr, a professor of physiology at the University of Copenhagen, and his wife Ellen née Adler, who came from a wealthy Jewish banking family.Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.
Niels BohrEvery sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Niels BohrEvery valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.
Niels Bohr
- Niels Bohr (Wikipedia)
Niels Henrik David Bohr (Danish: [ˈne̝ls ˈpoɐ̯ˀ]; 7 October 1885 – 18 November 1962) was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. Bohr was also a philosopher and a promoter of scientific research.