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Niels born was born in Copenhagen, Denmark he was the son of Professor Christian Bohr and his wife Ellen.
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He enrolled as an undergraduate at the university as a philosophy and mathematics major.
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After winning an essay competition on surface tension Bohr changed his major to physics.
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While being a student Neil worked on an experiment of the surface tension, he worked on it at his fathers lab and received a prize for it in which then was published in the Transactions of the Royal Society.
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Bohr graduated with his masters degree in Physics
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Bohr graduated with his PhD in physics and moved to England.
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Bohr started working as a professor at the University of Copenhagen
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Bohr published a model of atomic structure known as the Bohr Model. This model depicts the atom as a small nucleus with a positive charge that’s surrounded by a negative charge electron traveling around the nucleus.
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Bohr provided his services in the investigation of the structure of Atoms and received a Nobel Prize in Physics for it.
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Bohr was granted the Matteucci Medal
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Bohr debated quantum theory
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Franklin Medal was given to Bohr
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Bohr served as president in the Academy and was a supervisor for the first phase of Commissions program for uses of atomic energy. He also received a Copley Medal from the Royal Society of London for his work in quantum theory of atomic structure.
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The United States Atoms for Peace Award was given to Bohr and also received a Sonning Prize from the University of Copenhagen
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Niels Bohr died in Copenhagen, Denmark from a stroke
