NIELS BOHR

SCIENTIST, PHYSICIST
 BIOGRAPHY
Niels Bohr was one of the foremost scientists
of modern physics, best known for his
substantial contributions to quantum theory
and his Nobel Prize-winning research on the
structure of atoms.
 BIOGRAPHY
Born in Copenhagen in 1885 to well-educated
parents, Bohr became interested in physics at a
young age. He studied the subject throughout his
undergraduate and graduate years and earned a
doctorate in physics in 1911 from Copenhagen
University.
 WINS NOBEL PRIZE
Bohr received the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics for
his work on atomic structures, and he would
continue to come up with revolutionary theories. He
worked with Werner Heisenberg and other scientists
on a new quantum mechanics principle connected
to Bohr's concept of complementarity, which was
initially presented at an Italian conference in 1927.
 ATOMIC MODEL
Bohr's greatest contribution to modern
physics was the atomic model. The Bohr model
shows the atom as a small, positively charged
nucleus surrounded by orbiting electrons. 
A stylized representation of a lithium atom illustrates Niels Bohr's
atomic model, that an atom is a small, positively charged nucleus
surrounded by orbiting electrons.
 Bohr was the first to discover that electrons
travel in separate orbits around the nucleus
and that the number of electrons in the outer
orbit determines the properties of an element.
 The chemical element bohrium
(Bh), No. 107 on the periodic table
of elements, is named after him.
 LIQUID DROPLET THEORY
Bohr's theoretical work contributed significantly to
scientists' understanding of nuclear fission. According to his
liquid droplet theory, a liquid drop provides an accurate
representation of an atom's nucleus.

This theory was instrumental in the first attempts to split

uranium atoms in the 1930s, an important step in the
development of the atomic bomb.
 QUANTUM THEORY
Bohr's concept of complementarity, which he wrote about in a
number of essays between 1933 and 1962, states that an electron
can be viewed in two ways, either as a particle or as a wave, but
never both at the same time.
This concept, which forms the basis of early quantum theory,
also explains that regardless of how one views an electron, all
understanding of its properties must be rooted in empirical
measurement. Bohr's theory stresses the point that an
experiment's results are deeply affected by the measurement tools
used to carry them out.
 QUANTUM THEORY
Bohr's contributions to the study of quantum
mechanics are forever memorialized at the Institute for
Theoretical Physics at Copenhagen University, which he
helped found in 1920 and headed until his death in 1962.
It has since been renamed the Niels Bohr Institute in his
honor.
 REFERENCES
https://www.livescience.com/32016-niels-bohr-atomic-theory.html
https://www.biography.com/people/niels-bohr-21010897