Niels Bohr and his Contributions to Chemistry

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Chemistry SL
November 8, 2018

Niels Bohr and his contributions to Chemistry
Niels Bohr

Niels Bohr was a Danish physicist born in 1885. He came from a very well educated family, and attended Copenhagen University to pursue a career in Physics. He was able to obtain his Masters degree at the age of 23 and his Doctorate at the age of 25. He was also the winner of the Nobel prize for Physics in 1922. Due to his many contributions to Physics and other scientific fields, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest scientific minds of the 20th century. While his expertise lies mainly in Physics, he also made several monumental discoveries for Chemistry as well. He was the first to realize that elements in the periodic table had unique chemical properties, which was a direct result of the number of electrons the atom could hold. He was also the first to theorize that electrons could move from a higher orbit to a lower one, and that energy will be emitted in the process. His work was highly deductive, as he first thought up of theories for why things work, and was able to design experiments and collect data which proved his theories to be correct.



Interesting Facts about Niels Bohr

  • During World War II, Bohr saved the lives of many Jewish scientists by securing them academic jobs / research posts all over the world.

  • The year before Bohr won his Nobel prize, he established the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Denmark, which is now referred to as the “Niels Bohr Institute”

  • Along with Ernest Rutherford, the “Bohr-Rutherford” model of the atom was created in 1913, which showed negatively charged electrons orbiting a positively charged nucleus.
An example of the Bohr-Rutherford model
An example of the Bohr-Rutherford model

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References

“The Nobel Prize in Physics 1922.” NobelPrize.org,www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1922/bohr/biographical/.


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