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Highlights from Bohr's career
1890-01-01
The Bohr family
Niels Bohr (1885-1962) was the son of Christian Bohr, professor of physiology at the University of Copenhagen, and Ellen Bohr, n. Adler.
1912-01-01
The Bohr atom
Upon completing his doctorate in 1911, Bohr obtained a grant from the Carlsberg Foundation to study abroad. He went first to Cambridge...
1922-01-01
The Nobel Prize
In the autumn of 1922 it was announced that Bohr would receive that year's Nobel Prize for his work. This was a dramatic reversal...
1936-01-01
Contributions to nuclear physics
In the early 1930s Bohr was soon to realize that the most exciting questions in theoretical physics were in the process of moving...
1943-01-01
An 'Open World'
To Bohr, the existence of weapons of mass destruction necessitated an ‘Open World', in which all scientific and technical information...
