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Also known as Nicholas Baker, N. Bohr, N. H. D. Bohr

Danish physicist (1885–1962)

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Q7085 refers to Niels Bohr, a Danish physicist who lived from 1885 to 1962 and made fundamental contributions to understanding the structure of atoms and the behavior of light and matter. His work laid essential groundwork for modern quantum physics, one of the most important frameworks in science that explains how the smallest things in the universe work.

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Physics1922
“for his services in the investigation of the structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from them”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Henrik
Gender: male
Citizenship: Danish Realm
Place of birth: Copenhagen
Place of death: Copenhagen
Child: Aage Bohr
Father: Christian Bohr
Sibling: Harald Bohr
Occupation: chemist
Position held: professor
Educated at: University of Cambridge
Employer: University of Copenhagen Niels Bohr Institute
Languages spoken: Danish
Notable work: correspondence principle
Doctoral advisor: J. J. Thomson
Student of: Ernest Rutherford
Field of work: theoretical physics
Sport: association football
Member of team: Akademisk Boldklub
Position played: goalkeeper
Image: Niels Bohr.jpg
Residence: Mexico

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student: John Archibald Wheeler
place of burial: Assistens Cemetery
member of: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
Commons category: Niels Bohr
date of birth: 1885-00-00
date of death: 1962-00-00
topic's main category: Category:Niels Bohr
Erdős number: 4
birth name: Niels Henrik Daniel Bohr
Commons gallery: Niels Henrik David Bohr
nominated for: Nobel Prize in Chemistry
name in native language: Niels Bohr
cause of death: heart failure
pseudonym: Nicholas Baker
affiliation: Institute for Advanced Study
writing language: English language
relative: Karen Bramson
significant person: Lise Meitner
maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Mathematics
P8168: Chère
P12749: Lotte Jacobi
described at URL: fr.dbpedia.org/resource/Niels_Bohr
depicted by: Manhattan
manner of death: natural causes
interested in: physics

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Encyclopedic overview

Niels Henrik David Bohr (/niːlz bɔːr/; Danish: [ˈne̝ls ˈpoɐ̯ˀ]; 7 October 1885 – 18 November 1962) was a Danish theoretical physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. He was also a philosopher and a promoter of scientific research.

Bohr developed the Bohr model of the atom, in which he proposed that energy levels of electrons are discrete and that the electrons revolve in stable orbits around the atomic nucleus but can jump from one energy level (or orbit) to another. Although the Bohr model has been supplanted by other models, its underlying principles remain valid. He conceived the principle of complementarity: that items could be separately analysed in terms of contradictory properties, like behaving as a wave or a stream of particles. The notion of complementarity dominated Bohr's thinking in both science and philosophy.

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