He did it. He did what no one else could deduce. He inscribed his prominent atomic model. Can you guess who he is? Well, if you do, you most likely saw it in a science book, at a section about atoms. What most people don’t know is that he did a lot more. As you read, you’ll learn more about the clever, Niels Bohr.
In Copenhagen, Denmark, October 7th, 1885, the father of quantum mechanics was born. His parents named him Niels. He was the second child of three children, in a prosperous, upper-class family. His father was Christian Bohr a brilliant physiology professor and his mother was Ellen Adler, daughter of a wealthy politician. When Bohr was six years old, he was baptized as a Lutheran to please one of his grandmothers. Bohr’s parents were deeply passionate about education and were taught at home. Niels commenced formal school at the Grammelhom Grammar School at the age of 7. While Niels loved talking, he was weak in his native language, Danish.
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Two years later, until his death, he was elected the president of the Royal Danish Sciences. Very soon in 1939, Bohr and John Archibald Wheeler cooperated to produce “The Liquid model”. A year later, Niels fled from Denmark to America, because of the World War 2 and worked on the Manhattan project. Niels Bohr died in his home in Copenhagen because of a stroke on November 18, 1962. His ashes were buried in Copenhagen’s assistance cemetery near his parents.
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