November 18

Niels Bohr was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, on October 7, 1885, to mother Ellen Adler, a prosperous Jewish banking family, and father Christian Bohr, a noted physiology scholar. By 1911, the young Bohr had earned his master's and PhD in physics from Copenhagen University. Bohr was first confronted with the consequences of Planck's quantum theory of radiation in this study.
Related Quotes
