Niels Bohr - Nobel Prize in Physics — 1922
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Niels Bohr

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1922
for his services in the investigation of the structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from them
Citizenship
Kingdom of Denmark Kingdom of Denmark
Languages
English, Danish
date of birth
10/7/1885
place of birth
Copenhagen
date of death
11/18/1962
place of death
Copenhagen
Lived
77 years

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educated at
  • University of Copenhagen
    • doctoral advisor: Christian Christiansen
    • academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
    • academic thesis: Studier over Metallernes Elektrontheori
    • start time: 1903
    • end time: 1911
  • Trinity College
  • University of Cambridge
member of
  • Japan Academy
    • start time: 2/13/1950
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 12/6/1924
  • Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
    • start time: 6/1/1922
  • Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
    • start time: 8/15/1924
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
    • start time: 1932
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
    • start time: 1945
  • Pontifical Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 10/28/1939
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1940
  • Royal Society of London
    • start time: 4/29/1926
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1/31/1929
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1925
  • German Academy of Sciences at Berlin
  • Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters
  • Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
  • Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
  • Indian National Science Academy
  • Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  • Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
  • Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL
  • Polish Academy of Sciences
  • Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
position held
  • professor
    • start time: 1916
employer
  • University of Cambridge
    • end time: 1912
    • start time: 1911
  • Victoria University of Manchester
    • start time: 1914
  • University of Copenhagen Niels Bohr Institute
  • University of Copenhagen
doctoral student
  • Aage Bohr
  • Robert Bruce Lindsay
  • Svein Rosseland
notable work
  • correspondence principle
  • Bohr model
occupation
  • association football player
  • chemist
  • university teacher
  • nuclear physicist
  • philosopher of science
field of work
  • theoretical physics
  • atomic physics
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