Bohr, Niels Hendrik David

Bohr, Niels Hendrik David (1885-1962) Danish physicist. Niels Bohr was responsible for a key development in our understanding of atomic structure when he showed (1913) how the structure of the atom could be explained by imposing quantum conditions on the orbits of electrons, thus allowing only certain orbits. This theory accounted for details of the hydrogen spectrum. Bohr also contributed to nuclear physics, particularly the theory of nuclear fission. He was awarded the 1922 Nobel Prize for physics for his work on atomic theory. 

Niels Hendrik David Bohr (1885-1962) as a boy lived in the shadow of his younger brother Harald, who played on the 1908 Danish Olympic Soccer Team and later became a distinguished mathematician. 

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