Bohr went on to make enormous contributions to physics and, like Rutherford, to train a new generation of physicists. But his atomic model remains the best known work of a very long career.

Philip Ball looks at how a little-known paper by Niels Bohr demonstrates the turmoil in physics on the brink of quantum ...

Bohr's 'solar system' model of the atom is the way that most ... However, there was still a difference between the atomic number of the atom and the atomic mass. Bohr and other scientists knew ...

This lecture marks a key moment in Bohr’s scientific journey, coming shortly after he had developed his model of the atom, which had revolutionized the field of atomic physics. Here’s a ...

When an electron dropped from a high-energy orbit to a lower-energy one, it gave out light with an energy equal to the ...

His model was a huge leap forward in making ... States to launch the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb. Shortly after Bohr's return home, the German army occupied Denmark.