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.

Niels Bohr's model of the hydrogen atom—first published 100 years ago and commemorated in a special issue of Nature —is simple, elegant, revolutionary, and wrong.

Bohr's atomic orbit model (Credit: S. Egts) In a way, Niels Bohr was the pioneer of quantum physics (second only to Max Planck himself). At the very least, he was one of the many fathers of the field.

Location of electrons – Bohr-Rutherford model. Even though Rutherford had proven the existence of the nucleus, some issues still remained unanswered, for example how electrons fitted into this ...

Vilhelm Bohr will speak in Waterloo, Ontario, on Wednesday evening about his grandfather's legacy as one of the greatest minds in history. Watch live at 7 p.m. Author of the article: Ashley ...

It's a simplistic model, yet provides insights into atoms and chemical properties, and this year marks 100 years since the model was first proposed by Danish physicist Niels Bohr. The idea that ...

Two years later, though, Niels Bohr combined Rutherford’s model with quantum physics to explain mysterious regularities in the light emitted by hydrogen atoms.

THE beautiful conception which inspires and co-ordinates practically the whole of modern atomic physics is the atomic model of Rutherford and Bohr. Its essential feature-the nucleus-was first put ...

Over the years other investigators refined Bohr's theory, but his bold application of new ideas paved the way for the development of quantum mechanics. Bohr went on to make enormous contributions to ...