Early Life
Niels Bohr was born on the 7th of October 1885 in Copenhagen, Denmark to a Jewish family as the middle child of 3. Bohr’s mother was from a rich Jewish banking family, and father was from a renowned physiologist, so Bohr was situated for success. Bohr attended Copenhagen University to earn his masters and doctorate in physics by 1911. Bohr traveled to Cambridge to work under scientist J.J. Thomson. In 1912, Bohr’s research theorized that atoms give off electromagnetic radiation as electrons jump to different orbit levels. Bohr’s idea deviated from Rutherford’s model, which suggested that atoms had a densely packed positive nucleus surrounded by a cloud of negative electrons; this known as the plumb pudding model. There were a few …show more content…
He worked with Heisenberg and others on a new quantum mechanics principle connected to Bohr's concept of complementarity. The concept asserted that physical properties on an atomic level would be viewed differently depending on the experiment itself; it explained why light could be seen as both a particle and a wave, though never in unison. Bohr went on to worked as great pioneer of research on nuclear fission during the late 1930s, contributing the liquid droplet theory.
People didn’t aBohr him Bohr was widely known for his humanity and intellect through all of his efforts. Bohr would come to apply the ideas of complementarity from physics philosophically as well where only certain aspects of humanity can be exhibited at a …show more content…
He was very concerned about the future use of such a weapon so he led much of his life pioneering for the cause of arms control and active communication to prevent nuclear disaster. After Hitler took power in Germany, Bohr began to offer a place for his Jewish colleagues to escape as scientists. He was highly involved in the cause against the Nazi’s so he donated his Nobel gold medal to the Finnish war effort. Later He visited the United States to inform the Americans that the Nazi’s were developing a nuclear bomb of their own. This motivated the United States to start their own atomic program, The Manhattan Project. Unfortunately right as Bohr returned from the United States, the Nazi’s took over his home country, Denmark so he was now under Nazi control. Three years later Bohr's family fled to Sweden in a fishing boat as Bohr and his son left Sweden traveling in the bomb racks of a British military plane. They went to the United States, where both father and son joined forces