Niels Bohr
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April 26
Biography
 Niels
Henrik David Bohr
 7 October 1885 – 18 November 1962
 Born and died in Copenhagen, Denmark
 University of Copenhagen, University of
Cambridge, University of Manchester
 Nobel prize in 1922 for physics
Experiment and area of study
 Used
majority of his effort researching the
structure of the atom
 Studied physics
 Experimented with his professor Ernest
Rutherford
The Bohr model
 Niels
Bohr created The Bohr model as an
adaption from an earlier model created
by Ernest Rutherford
 The Bohr Model is a model in which the
negatively-charged electrons orbit a
positively-charged nucleus
 Electrons orbit the nucleus in cycles that
have a set size and energy
Major contributions
 Created
model of atoms including
electrons and nucleus
 Contributed to the Manhattan project
 Expanded on Rutherford's idea that
electrons orbit the nucleus
Bibliography
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Bohr#M
anhattan_Project
 http://chemistry.about.com/od/atomicstr
ucture/a/bohr-model.htm
 http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/p
hysics/laureates/1922/bohr-bio.html