Niels Bohr (1885-1962)

• Born in Denmark, earned PhD, postdoc in England in 1911

• Worked in England with discoverer of the electron and the discoverer of the atomic nucleus .

• Successfully modeled the H atom in 1915

• Important figure in the interpretation of the meaning of Quantum Mechanics.

• Leader of the

• “Copenhagen School”

• of Quantum Theory

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If any one person can be said to be the most important figure in the development of quantum mechanics, it must be Niels Bohr. It was Bohr’s intellectual insight into the interpretation of experiments and the meaning of particle and wave concepts that led most directly to our modern understanding of how physics works on the microscopic level.