In 1922, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the atom’s structure. Let’s find out more about his work on Bohr's Model of an Atom. What is Bohr's Model of an Atom?

Bohr began to work on the problem of the atom's structure. Ernest Rutherford had recently suggested the atom had a miniature, dense nucleus surrounded by a cloud of nearly weightless electrons.

Photo: Niels Bohr's research notes for his new atomic theory Rutherford's find came from a very strange experience. Everyone at that time imagined the atom as a "plum pudding." That is ...

The centenary of the discovery of the quantum atom by Niels Bohr will be celebrated at the University with an event organised by the Institute of Physics today (Saturday). The Danish physicist and ...

SCIENCE is steadily becoming severely specialised. The proportion of amateurs (in the restricted sense of the word) among original workers of all ranks decreases slowly but surely. The average ...

Therefore, electrons cannot be arranged at random, but they must have fixed levels of energy within each type of atom. Bohr's 'solar system' model of the atom is the way that most people think ...