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

Niels Bohr was born and educated in Copenhagen, Denmark. He lived, worked, and died there, too. But his mark on science and history was worldwide. His professional work and personal convictions ...

Photo: Niels Bohr's research notes for his new atomic theory ... But his atomic model remains the best known work of a very long career.

As profound as was the work of Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr in physics, their thoughts and practice in education were of the same nature. In 1952 Einstein wrote an article titled, “Education f ...

Twice in the space of a few days, I came across a dictum attributed to Niels Bohr, the renowned Danish physicist who in 1922 received a Nobel Prize for his work on the structure of the atom.

In 1913, Niels Bohr revised Rutherford's model by suggesting that the electrons orbited the nucleus in different energy levels or at specific distances from the nucleus. By doing this, he was able ...

In 1927, Werner Heisenberg was in Denmark working at Niels Bohr's research institute in Copenhagen ... you could only work with probability and mathematical formulations. (Heisenberg called ...