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Niels Henrick David Bohr was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, born as the son of a professor of Physiology.
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Bohr published his first work at the young age of 20. At the time, he was a physics student at Copenhagen University, where he did not have access to a physics lab. Because of this, he ended up making his own test tubes!
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Bohr's first interest in atoms began in 1911 while working on his masters thesis.
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At the young age of 28, Bohr published "The Trilogy", explaining the Bohr Atomic Theory (Ford, 2018). This theory was first in relation to only hydrogen. It is "a theory of the stricture of atoms stating that electrons revolve in discrete orbits around a positively charged nucleus and that radiation is given or absorbed only when an electron moves from one orbit to another." (Collins, 2012). Bohr, Niels. “The Trilogy: On the Constitution of Atoms and Molecules .” 1913.
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This institute was Niels Bohr's own University, opened when he was just 36. It is still fully operational today. More about his renowned work can be seen here:
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In 1922, Bohr received a Nobel Prize in physics "for his services in the investigation of the structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from them." (Nobel Prize Media, 2020).
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The Order of the Elephant is a prestigious award, typically only for royalty. Bohr received it from King Frederick IX for his work in physics (Numericana, 2020).
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In 1962, Niel Bohr died at the age of 77 due to heart failure.
