Niels Henrik David Bohr

Niels Bohr

DANISH PHYSICIST

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• Finn Aaserud

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Niels Bohr, in full Niels Henrik David Bohr, (born October 7, 1885, Copenhagen, Denmark—died November 18, 1962, Copenhagen), Danish physicist who is generally regarded as one of the foremost physicists of the 20th century. He was the first to apply the quantum concept, which restricts the energy of a system to certain discrete values, to the problem of atomic and molecular structure. For that work he received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1922. His manifold roles in the origins and development of quantum physics may be his most-important contribution, but through his long career his involvements were substantially broader, both inside and outside the world of physics./.../