Niels bohr

Niels Bohr

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  • Birth

    Birth

    Niels Bohr was born in one of the flattest and "happiest" countries in the world, Denmark; specifically Copenhagen.

  • Undergraduate

    At the age of 18, Bohr enrolled in the University of Copenhagen. Bohr riginally studied mathematics and philosophy but later switched to physics after two years.

  • Masters

    Bohr received his Master's degree in Science
  • Doctorate & Engangement

    Doctorate & Engangement

    This was a year to remember for Bohr and his wife. He proposed to the love of his life and also received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Copenhagen.
  • Marriage

    Marriage

    One year after being engaged, Bohr and his wife Margrethe got married.

  • Philisophical Magazine

    As time went by, Bohr was starting to become widely known. He started a series in the philosophical magazine titled On the Constant of Atoms and Molecules.

  • Discovery

    Bohr's discovery of "a theory for the hydrogen atom, based on quantum theory that some physical quantities only take discrete values."
    Niels Bohr – Facts. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Prize Outreach AB 2022. Sun. 27 Mar 2022. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1922/bohr/facts/

  • Professor Bohr

    Only a few years after receiving his doctorate, Bohr went back to his school not to learn but to teach! He became an assistant professor at the University of Copenhagen.
    Mukunda, N. “The Life and Work of Niels Bohr — A Brief Sketch.” Resonance: Journal of Science Education, vol. 18, no. 10, Oct. 2013, pp. 877–84. EBSCOhost, https://doi-org.ezproxy1.apus.edu/10.1007/s12045-013-0114-3.
  • Meeting Einstein

    Meeting Einstein

    After being invited to Berlin, Bohr finally met the one and only Albert Einstein, who he would work with side by side making great achievements.
    Mukunda, N. “The Life and Work of Niels Bohr — A Brief Sketch.” Resonance: Journal of Science Education, vol. 18, no. 10, Oct. 2013, pp. 877–84. EBSCOhost, https://doi-org.ezproxy1.apus.edu/10.1007/s12045-013-0114-3.

  • Nobel Prize

    Bohr received the Nobel Prize in physics "for his services in the investigation of the structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from them."
    Niels Bohr – Facts. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Prize Outreach AB 2022. Sun. 27 Mar 2022. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1922/bohr/facts/
  • Passing

    Passing

    Niels Bohr died in his hometown of Copenhagen, Denmark of heart failure after having a stroke.