Niels Bohr

birth

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.

colleagues

Albert Einstein

death

Bohr died of heart failure at his home in Carlsberg on 18 November 1962.

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portrait

radical and rebel

Every 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

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president

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tagged

Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it. Niels Bohr
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question. Niels Bohr

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timeline

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.

Wikidata

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7085

Wikipedia

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.

work

Bohr model