Niels Bohr Accomplishments

His first life accomplishment was about a book. At age twenty-seven, he released a five hundred page textbook called Organic Chemistry. The book won Demidov prize and put him in front of Russian chemical education. In 1867, at age thirty three, he was awarded Chair of General Chemistry. Everybody admired that he changed a difficult branch of chemistry into a logical science. His nomination for the 1906 Nobel Prize failed by one vote. In 1876, he was officially named Professor of General Chemistry at the University of St. Perersburg. After resigning in 1890, he was officially named Director of Bureau of Weights where he stayed until his death in 1907. In 1905, the British Royal Society gave him the Copley Medal, its highest honor! Also in 1905, he was elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Mendeleev’s law was soon discovered after those three elements were found. Not surprisingly, he was remembered as a brilliant scholar, an inspiring teacher, and an amazing writer. He next began a book for organic chemistry. His books, Principles of Chemistry, with two volumes, became standard until the early 20th

Then later in life he built an institute. In his early life he did many things and had a lot of great accomplishments. He was the eldest son of Orthodox Jewish-Polish immigrants and was born in East Harlem, New York, on October 28, 1914. Then after a while he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in science in 1933, at the age of nineteen, and went on to New York University’s School of Medicine.

Within the last hundred years, the atomic model gone through dramatic changes allowing to apply the knowledge of matter understanding at atomic level into different industries like medicine such as MRI and X-Ray. This knowledge allowed doctors to treat, diagnose and certainly save millions of people throughout the years, which could not have been done without research being done on the structure of the atom funded continuously for these scientists to find more application which benefit people and comprehend the world we live in on an atomic level.

By firing massively charged particles at an atom, he found that atoms are made up of smaller particles (Doc. 1).  This would lead to his discovery of protons also known as alpha particles (OI). After that, he bombarded gold foil and observed that some of the atoms passed through the foil. Therefore, he concluded that atoms are composed of empty space (OI).  

He soon was recognized and got a job as a physicist. He was recruited by MIT to work on a project. When he was working, he invented the first

Johann Elert Bode was born in Hamburg, Germany on January 19, 1747. His father was a merchant and his mother stayed at home with him and his eight younger brothers and sisters. Bode never went to formal school, but his father was determined to teach him how to be a great merchant. However, Bode didn’t want to become a merchant. He was very interested in mathematics, geography, and astrology. He decided to go against what his father was teaching him and pursue a career in Astrology instead.

Pierre Boulle was born on February 20, 1912 in Avignon, France. His father, Eugene Boulle, was a brilliant lawyer who taught him his sense of humor and open- mindedness and his mother, Therese Seguin, was born in a family of printers. Pierre’s parents raised him to be Catholic although later in his life he became agnostic. He studied science at the Sorbonne and then entered the Ecole Supérieure d'Electricité de Paris. Pierre Boulle graduated college with a degree in engineering in 1932 and subsequently became an engineer. Then Pierre Boulle later moved to Malaya when he was 26. From 1936 to 1939 he worked as a technician on British rubber plantations in Malaya. At the outbreak of World War II Boulle enlisted with the French army in French

Leo Szilard was born on February 11, 1898 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary. His father was a civil engineer, and Szilard decided to follow in his father’s footsteps. In 1916, he went to college at a technical university in Budapest for a year before he joined the Austro-Hungarian Army. In 1917, Szilard was saved from going to the front lines by an unknown illness. After the war in 1920, he went to school at the Technische Hochschule in Charlottenburg, Germany. He studied physics with famous physicists Albert Einstein, Max Planck and Max Von Laue. After studying with Einstein, they became close friends. He went far with his academics in Germany, but eventually moved from Germany to London due to the rise of the Nazi Party in 1933 and then

“By 1687, he had theorized that gravity was a force that could hold objects, such as the moon, in orbit around the Earth, and he worked out equations to prove it” (Challenging Limits). He then calculated the laws of motion that held the planets in their orbits around the sun. Along with his research, he invented calculus, the method for working out the speed of an object at any given moment during its path. By the 20th century, scientist could demonstrate atoms and the tiny charged particles they contained called electrons. The electrons are virtually invisible, but Leeuwenhoek used them from an electron microscope that magnified ten million times. Allowing future scientist to develop the MRI scanner, a precise diagnostic tool used to learn about the work of the brain. In addition to the discovery of atoms and their electrons, a physicist by the name of Albert Einstein formulated the theorem E=mc2. Stating that energy resided in matter itself. With this, scientist learned that atoms are our greatest repository of energy. Scientist began to ask if they themselves, “if we could split atoms, could we release the new, limitless supply of energy” (Challenging Limits)? Soon, scientist did split atoms that released massive surges of energy, but also produced lethal radioactivity. This groundbreaking discovery provided a possible solution to what created the

“Brilliant Phoebe, he also discovered that there was negative charges in atoms called electrons.” Ms. Frizzle responded. “Ernest Rutherford was another person who conducted an experiment, it was called the gold foil experiment.” Ms. Frizzle added.

People know Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius as one of the most accomplished men of his time and beyond. The Roman scholar, poet, orator, musician, and philosopher gave much of his knowledge to the ancient world in his lifetime. Through his writings and translations, Boethius made important contributions to the Middle Ages, and gave people a better understanding of ancient times. Boethius also proved himself to be a gifted man, making him worthy of praise up to today. For these reasons, many remember the life of Boethius.

Before really discussing what atoms were, why they are important, and so on. We began talking about the scientists that contributed to the study of atoms. The main scientist that we discussed were Democritus, Rutherford, Thomson, Bohr, Dalton, Heisenberg, and Chadwick. Prior to taking chemistry I only knew about Democritus, the Greek philosopher who developed the modern atomic model, and Dalton, who further developed Democritus’s model of the atomic model, but I wanted to know more about the other scientist. That night I went home and did research on the other scientist. This led me to finding out very interesting information on the other scientist and having a deeper understanding on what part of their research is still relevant today. The extra research I did on the scientist was a just a small scale example of talking my education into my own hands and getting a deeper understanding of particular

Ernest Rutherford was a New Zealand born British physicist who is famously known for “splitting the atom.” His work on the gold foil experiment contributed greatly to the model of the atom and helped develop the standard model of the atom to what we now use today. Without his contributions we would still be using the Plum Pudding model, an out dated and incorrect model, and we would have less of an understanding of how atoms form the world around us.

The Discovery of the Atom first came from the Greeks which made a theory “The idea that all matter is made up of tiny, indivisible particles, or atoms, is believed to have originated with the Greek philosopher Leucippus of Miletus and his student Democritus of Abdera in the 5th century B.C. (The word atom comes from the Greek word atomos, which means “indivisible.”)” (InfoPlease Atomic theory)

Bohr is well known for his amazing research on the structure of the atom, he thought that maybe the hydrogen atom was based on the quantum theory that energy can only be transferred in one way, and he also thought that E. rutherford model had some problems, so he fixed