Portrait of Niels Bohr
The Niels Bohr Archive, Copenhagen
Niels Bohr
Niels Bohr was a Danish physicist who lived between 1885-1962. He studied the structure of atoms and developed a new theory about how the electrons in an atom were arranged.
After helping build the first nuclear bomb, Bohr spent the later years of his life encouraging peaceful uses of atomic energy.
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