SCIENTIFIC PROFESSOR

NILES BOHR

BASIC INFORMATION

• Born on October 7, 1885
• He worked on the Manhattan Project
• Wrote in an "Open Letter to the United Nations"
• He died on November18, 1962
• A humanitarian who theories on atomic strictures helped shape research worldwide

SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS

• He founded the university's institute of Theoretical Physics
• Received the 1922 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the atomic structure
• Bohr's concept of complementarity.
• Worked with other scientists on nuclear fissions
• Helped establish CERN
• Received the Atoms for Peace Award