Bohr was born in Copenhagen in 1885, his father a distinguished professor of physiology and his mother from a wealthy Jewish family of bankers. Bohr achieved early renown for his development of the quantum theory of sub-atomic matter which had recently been pioneered by Albert Einstein and Max Planck. He worked with Rutherford in Manchester in the early 1910s and in 1921 became founding director of the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen which would become the key institution in the development of nuclear physics up to 1939. In 1922 Bohr was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics (one year after Einstein, four years after Planck). His major work examined how it came about that radiation was emitted from atoms in certain states, what this radiation told us about sub-atomic…
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