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Niels Bohr

1885–1962 · 20th century

Niels Bohr was a Danish physicist who proposed the Bohr model of the atom in 1913, applying quantum ideas to the structure of electrons. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. His institute in Copenhagen, founded in 1921, became a centre of quantum mechanics. He escaped occupied Denmark in 1943, advised the Manhattan Project and later promoted the peaceful use of atomic energy.

Niels Bohr
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