Niels Bohr was born in Copenhagen in denmark in 1885. His father was a professor of physiology at the University of

Copengagen. Niels attended the same

university and was a distinguished soccer player as well as a brilliant student.

   Bohr studied at J. J. Thomson´s

Cavendish Laboratory and at Rutherford´s laboratory. At the young age of 28, while working with Rutherford, he invented the first effective model and theory of the structure of the atom. His work ranks as one of the truly great examples of an

imaginative mind at work. He was awarded the 1922 Nobel Prize for physics for his

study of the structure of atoms.

   During Worls War 2, Bohr and his family escaped from occupied Denmark to the

United States. He and his son, Aage, acted as advisers at the Los Alomos Atomic

Laboratories, where the atom bomb was

developed. Thereafter, Bohr concerned

himself with developing peaceful uses of nuclear energy. Aage Bohr, Neil´s son was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1975.

1885--1962

Niels Hendrick David Bohr