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In September of 1911, Bohr who was supported by a fellowship called the Carlsberg Foundation, travelled to England. Here they worked on the theoretical structure of an atom. He attended lectures on electromagnetism. He didn't impress anyone with his work with cathode ray tubes. But instead worked on his own model of the atom and its inner workings. -
April of 1917 Bohr began work on trying to establish an institute for physics. He was supported by the Danish Government, and the Carlsberg Foundation to do so. In November of 1918 legislation was passed to recognize Bohr's Institute. This institute severed as the main focal point on the study of quantum mechanics and other related subjects in the 20's and 30's. -
The in November of 1925 the introduction of "spin" was a huge milestone in the quantum mechanics community. The following month Bohr was travelling to Leiden to attend a 50th anniversary celebration of Hendrick Lorentz. On arrival Einstein and Ehrenfest informed Bohr that Einstein had resolved a problem with the spin theory by using relativity. Bohr then had the relativity added into the paper on atomic spin. -
With the rise of Nazism many scholars fled their country to escape because they were either Jewish or were political opponents of the Nazi party. The Rockefeller Foundation helped to bring those academic refugees to his institute and getting them temporary jobs and then setting up fellowships with his institutes, allowing them to find places all around the world to work at doing research in. During the War he hid Nobel prize in a gold acid solution and later refined it and had them remade. -
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