biography
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Bohr, Niels (Henrik David)
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pronunciation:
[baw(r)]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1885–1962)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Copenhagen, Denmark. He studied at Copenhagen University, went to England to work at Cambridge and Manchester, and in 1920 founded the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen, which he directed until his death. He greatly extended the theory of atomic structure when he explained the spectrum of hydrogen by means of an atomic model and quantum theory (1913). During World War 2 he assisted atomic bomb research in America, returning to Copenhagen in 1945. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1922. |
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