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Birth
Copenhagen -
Education
matriculation in Gammelholm Grammar School -
Higher Education
He entered CopenhagenUniversity under the guidance of Professor C. Christiansen. -
Doctor's Degree
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Atomic Theory
Having there carried out a theoretical piece of work on the absorption of alpha rays which was published in the Philosophical Magazine, 1913, he passed on to a study of the structure of atoms on the basis of Rutherford’s discovery of the atomic nucleus. By introducing conceptions borrowed from the Quantum Theory as established by Planck. -
Nobel Price
Recognition of his work on the structure of atoms came with the award of the Nobel Prize -
Key Works
The Theory of Spectra and Atomic Constitution, University Press, Cambridge, 1922/2nd. ed., 1924; -
Key Works
Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature, University Press, Cambridge, 1934/reprint 1961 Link text -
Key Works
The Unity of Knowledge, Doubleday & Co., New York, 1955. -
Death
Copenhagen