Niels Henrik David Bohr
1885 - 1962
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Niels Bohr is best known for the investigations of atomic structure and also for work on radiation, which won him the 1922 Nobel Prize for physics.
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| Honours awarded to Niels Bohr (Click below for those honoured in this way) | |
| Nobel Prize | 1922 |
| Fellow of the Royal Society | 1926 |
| Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh | 1927 |
| Royal Society Copley Medal | 1938 |
| LMS Honorary Member | 1939 |
| Lunar features | Crater Bohr |
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- Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Astroseti (A Spanish translation of this biography)
- Copenhagen Denmark
- Nobel prizes site (A biography of Bohr and his Nobel prize presentation speech)
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