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Born in Copenhagen, Denmark. His father was a professor of physiology and his mother came from a wealthy Jewish family.
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In this year Bohr published three separate papers on his theory of atomic structure. These papers also introduced his model of a hydrogen atom. His theory that an electron could drop from a higher-energy into a lower-energy orbit and release energy. He also theorized that the properties of an element were determined by the number of electrons in the atom's outer orbit.
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Established in 1918 and opened under the name of Niels Bohr Institute in March 1921 under the direction of Bohr himself. The Institute focuses on quantum mechanics and theoretical physics.
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Bohr's philosophical principle that said depending on the experimental framework items could have mutually exclusive properties. This principle was based on his experiments that confirmed the de Broglie hypothesis.
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Bohr worked with physicist Fritz Kalckar to explain how neutrons could be captured by a nucleus and that a nucleus could also be deformed.
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Died of heart failure in his own home at the age of 77.