History of the institute

The establishment of an institute

1 January 1921

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Soon after being appointed professor at the University of Copenhagen in 1916, Bohr began lobbying for an institute devoted to physics.

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Hafnium

1 January 1922

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By the early 1920s Bohr was able to use his atomic theory to predict the properties of all chemical elements.

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The Copenhagen Interpretation

1 January 1925

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The famous discussions between Bohr and Albert Einstein at the 1927 and 1930 Solvay conferences...

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The Copenhagen conferences

1 January 1929

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The characteristic informal discussions between Bohr and his (most often) younger colleagues was institutionalised in 1929 with the..

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Nuclear physics and biology

1 January 1930

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Nuclear physics and biology
In the first half of the 1930s interest in theoretical physics gradually turned from the outer part of the atom to its centre, the nucleus.

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The postwar period 

1 January 1953

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After the war, the Niels Bohr Institute saw an enormous expansion. Postwar nuclear physics at the institute reached a high point in 1953...

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