Niels+Bohr

Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)Daniel Shalinsky + Miranda Cardinal


 * Early life:**

Niels Henrik David Bohr was born on October 7, 1885 in Copenhagen. Niels Bohr is the son of Christian Bohr, a Professor of Physiology at Copenhagen University. Niels, together with his younger brother Harald (the future Professor in Mathematics), grew up in a house hold genius’s - his father was an distinguished physiologist and was responsible for starting his interest in physics while still at school, his mother came from a family in the field of education.


 * Education:**

After his final exams at the Gammelholm Grammar School in 1903, he began post secondary education at Copenhagen University where he came a highly respected physicist, Niels Bogr took his Master's degree in Physics in 1909 and his Doctor's degree in 1911

Bohr made many contributions to our knowledge of the structure and properties of atoms. He won the 1922 Nobel Prize for physics, especially for his work on atomic structure.

In 1934 Niels Bohr invited Otto Frisch to join his Institute of Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen. He continued the work he had begun in London, discovering a further two new isotopes, before becoming interested in the collisions between neutrons and nuclei


 * World war 2**

During World War II, Bohr fled Copenhagen to escape the Nazis. He traveled to Los Alamos, New Mexico to advise the scientists developing the first atomic bomb. He returned to Copenhagen after the war and later promoted the peaceful use of atomic energy.