Niels Bohr was born and educated in Copenhagen ... In addition to his major contributions to theoretical physics, Bohr was an excellent administrator. The institute he headed is now named for ...

As physicists like Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein began to study particles, they discovered new physics laws that were downright quirky. These were the laws of quantum mechanics, and they got ...

My parents had both studied physics and worked for a short time in the Cavendish ... That was in 1923, when Sommerfeld and others were still elaborating Niels Bohr's theory of orbits. But in 1926, ...

Shortly after Rutherford’s discovery of the nucleus, the Danish physicist Niels Bohr began to attack this problem using quantum principles. He harnessed an idea introduced by Max Planck in 1900 ...

Jacob Bourjaily, associate professor of physics at Penn State, was honored with the Lars Kann-Rasmussen Prize for 2025 by the Niels Bohr International ...

What is quantum physics? Put simply ... which was first developed in the 1920s by Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger and others. It characterises simple things such as how the ...

New era in physics After 10 days on Heligoland in June ... If this perplexes you, take comfort in Niels Bohr’s words: “Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory doesn’t understand it.” ...

His luck, or fate, was to come of age in the Germany of the late 1920s, just as Heisenberg, Niels Bohr and others were fleshing out the bones of quantum mechanics. This was revolutionary physics ...

In 1913, Niels Bohr revised Rutherford's model by suggesting that the electrons orbited the nucleus in different energy levels or at specific distances from the nucleus. By doing this, he was able ...