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Bohr finished his formal education from the University of Copenhagen. His thesis was based on the study of the Lorentz-Drude electron theory of metals. The most important part about his formal education at the time is that it taught him the importance of communication and concise word choice that he would use for the rest of his life (Makunda, 2013). -
Neils Bohr met Albert Einstein and Max Plank in April of 1920 after eight years of studying the intricacies of atoms and molecules. His three papers titled,"On the Constitution of Atoms and Molecules : Parts I, II, III" were published in the Philosophical Magazine. The efforts of these publications gained him recognition by the other two powerful physicists in the scientific community. They invited him to meet in Berlin (Makunda, 2013). -
Niels Bohr worked tirelessly to create the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen from 1917 to 1921 (Makunda, 2013). He was seated as the director thereafter. The institute served as a meeting place for discussing many new advancements in quantum mechanics and served as the new field's birthplace. -
Bohr received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1922 at the same time as Albert Einstein for his theory of atomic constitution (Makunda, 2013). He justified the need to explain the movement of electrons in a different motion than previously conceived and shows through complex formulas that electrons moving in a "ring" was an oversimplification of movement around nuclei (Bohr, 1922). -
Complementarity was a revolutionary idea that he explained was crucial to the advancement of science. His Complementarity Principle suggested that there are some areas in science that should be discussed together such as particle and wave theories of light to more fully understand the phenomenon observed (Rabinowitz, 2012). This led to many famous arguments between himself and Einstein concerning the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. -
In 1965, just three years after his death, the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen is renamed the Niels Bohr Institute in his honor (Makunda, 2013).