The grandson of the great physicist Niels Bohr describes the scientist’s life and work
ByThe atom was an unknowable mystery in the early 20th century when pioneers such as Niels Bohr began to pin down its nature. Scientists first “split the atom” in 1917 and realized that it had constituent parts of its own. Bohr was the first to suggest that the electrons, carriers of the negative charge in the atom, circle the positively charged nucleus in different orbits called “energy levels” and gain or lose energy by jumping from one level to another. Although modern quantum theory—which Bohr himself helped develop—has shown that the orbits associated with energy levels are more metaphoric than literal, this “” of the atom is still essentially accurate.
Bohr’s grandson Vilhelm Bohr will discuss his forebear’s life and legacy during a public lecture tonight, Wednesday, June 3 at 7 P.M. Eastern time that will be broadcast live here on this page. The talk, “,” is part of the public lecture series at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Ontario presented by Sun Life Financial. Vilhelm Bohr is a department chair at the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health in Baltimore and chairs the Niels Bohr Archive in Copenhagen.
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