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

Niels Bohr won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics for investigating the structure of atoms and the radiation emanating from them. He argued that electrons move in defined orbits around an atom's nucleus, ...

Niels Bohr was born and educated in Copenhagen ... but his essential idea was proved correct. He received the Nobel Prize for this work in 1922, and it's what he's most famous for.

The Nobel Prize is considered the highest award in science worldwide ... Heisenberg had researched this with Max Born at the University of Göttingen as well as with Niels Bohr in Copenhagen and at the ...

according to the same principles as the other prizes. FAMOUS AND INFAMOUS LAUREATES Notable Nobel laureates include ...

Niels Bohr's Nobel Lecture on December 11 ... In the years following his Nobel Prize, Bohr became a prominent figure in international scientific debates, particularly in his efforts to promote ...

Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the eponymous prize for those who "conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Since the first prize was awarded in 1901, 1,000 people have ...

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.

Planck was an extremely successful physicist, receiving the Nobel Prize in 1919, but his personal life was marked by tragedy. He and his first wife Marie Merck had two sons and twin daughters ...