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1885–1962
Niels Henrik David Bohr
Niels Henrik David Bohr · 丹麦
20th-century Danish physicist, one of the founders of quantum mechanics (1885–1962).
Born in Copenhagen, he graduated from the University of Copenhagen and then went to Britain to study under Rutherford; in 1913 he proposed the Bohr model of the atom and in 1922 won the Nobel Prize in Physics; in 1920 he founded the University of Copenhagen's Institute for Theoretical Physics (later the Niels Bohr Institute); during the Second World War he fled to Sweden and Britain, and after the war called for international cooperation on nuclear energy and took part in founding the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).
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Birthplace and principal place of activity Copenhagen.
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Cultural significance
The central figure of the "Copenhagen school"; the element bohrium (Bohrium) is named after him.
