Philip Ball looks at how a little-known paper by Niels Bohr demonstrates the turmoil in physics on the brink of quantum ...

Niels Bohr's Nobel Lecture on December 11, 1922, titled The Structure of the Atom, is one of the most significant contributions ... of the leading figures in atomic theory. His influence extended ...

Photo: Niels Bohr's research notes for his new atomic theory Rutherford's find came ... Bohr went on to make enormous contributions to physics and, like Rutherford, to train a new generation ...

Niels Bohr was born and educated in Copenhagen ... States to launch the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb. Shortly after Bohr's return home, the German army occupied Denmark.

In 1913, Niels Bohr revised Rutherford's ... However, there was still a difference between the atomic number of the atom and the atomic mass. Bohr and other scientists knew that there also had ...