1. NIELS BOHR: The physicist his biography and
atomic model
• Niels Bohr: the physicist his biography and
atomic model. Google has today celebrated
his life with a homepage doodle on what
would have been his 127th birthday
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• To mark the 127th birthday of physicist Niels Bohr, Google has created a
doodle to showcase his contributions to science and features his Bohr
atomic model.
• Here are 10 things you need to know about the scientist...
• 1. Niels Henrik David Bohr was a Danish physicist, born in Copenhagen on
October 7, 1885
• 2. His father was Christian Bohr who observed the phenomenon called
Bohr shift
• 3. Niels took his Master's degree in Physics in 1909 and his Doctor's
degree in 1911
• 4. Niels married Margrethe Norlund - the sister of the mathematician Niels
Erik Norlund - in 1912 after dating for two years
• 5. In 1913 Niels published his model of atomic structure and also the idea
that an electron could emit a photon of discrete energy as it dropped from
a higher-energy orbit to a lower one
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• 6. In 1922 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics
"for his services in the investigation of the structure of
atoms and of the radiation emanating from them"
• 7. He was a keen footballer and he played in goal for
Akademisk Boldklub
• 8. Fearing arrest by the Germans, Niels fled to Britain
during World War II and then to New Mexico to work
on the Manhattan Project - a research and
development program by the US and UK - that
produced the first atomic bomb
• 9. Niels appears on the Danish 500 Kroner
• 10. He died from heart failure in Copenhagen in 1962