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Niels Bohr was born on Ocotber 7, 1885 in Copenhagen Denmark. His father was a professor of physiology at the Univerity of Copenhagen. His mother came from a wealthy Danish Jewish family.
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Bohr enrolled in Copenhagen Ubiversity with his major in physics. He studied under professor Christian Christiansen.
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Bohr traveled to England where he met J.J. Thomson of the Cavendish Laboratory and Trinity College, Cambridge. Bohr used Ernest Rutherford's model of the atom and revised it later on.
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Most of Bohr's theoretical work about structure of atoms and molecules was done in England.
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Bohr introudced the Planetary model which showed properties of atomic and molecular structure in a simplified picture of an atom.
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Bohr began a campaign to establish an institute of theoretical physics. He gained the support of the Danish government and the Carlsberg Foundation.
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Bohr was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his investigation of the structue of atoms and molecules.
