Niels Bohr
1885 – 1962 · Denmark · Physics
Nobel Prize in Physics, 1922
Quantum atom and the Copenhagen interpretation.
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Who shaped Niels Bohr, and who they shaped
Inherited from2
- Ernest Rutherford
1871 – 1937 · Physics, Chemistry
The nuclear atom is the structure Bohr's quantum orbits were built to stabilise.
- Max Planck
1858 – 1947 · Physics
Bohr quantised the atom by importing Planck's constant into orbital angular momentum.
Passed the work to3
- Hideki Yukawa
1907 – 1981 · Physics
Bohr's 1937 Japan visit and nuclear model framed Yukawa's meson theory.
- Lise Meitner
1878 – 1968 · Physics, Chemistry
Bohr carried Meitner and Frisch's fission interpretation to America in 1939.
- Werner Heisenberg
1901 – 1976 · Physics
Copenhagen was Bohr's institute; complementarity and uncertainty were argued into shape there.
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- 1.Nobel Prize record — Nobel Prize in Physics, 1922
The Nobel Foundation · Primary source
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