Why Famous:Niels Bohr was a Danish physicist who specialised in Atomic theory and Complementarity (quantum mechanics). He won the Nobel Prize in 1922.
Bohr established the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of Copenhagen then escaped the Nazis in 1943. Bohr worked on The Manhattan Project for the British and was one of the founders of CERN.
Born: October 7, 1885 Birthplace:Copenhagen, Denmark
1912-08-01 Physicist Niels Bohr (26) weds Margrethe Norlund at a civil ceremony in Slagelse, Denmark
Historical Events
1922-12-10 Danish physicist Niels Bohr awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics, for work on the structure of atoms, at a ceremony in Copehagen
1941-09-17 Famous meeting between Danish physicist Niels Bohr and German head of nuclear energy project Werner Heisenberg in Copenhagen to discuss nuclear weapons (date approximate)
Quotes by Niels Bohr
"No, no, you're not thinking, you're just being logical."
"A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself."
Emilio G. Segrè
Hermann Hesse
Selma Lagerlöf
Galileo Galilei
John Bardeen
Leó Szilárd