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Niels Bohr was born in Copenhagen in Denmark in 1885. His father was a professor of physiology at the University of Copengagen. Niels attended the same university and was a distinguished soccer player as well as a brilliant student. Bohr studied at
J. J. Thomson´s Cavendish Laboratory and at
Rutherford´s laboratory. At the young age of 28, while working with Rutherford, he invented the first effective model and theory of the structure of the atom. His work ranks as one of the truly great examples of an imaginative mind at work. He was awarded the 1922
Nobel Prize for physics for his study of the structure of atoms. During Worls War 2, Bohr and his family escaped from occupied Denmark to the United States. He and his son, Aage, acted as advisers at the Los Alomos Atomic Laboratories, where the atom bomb was developed. Thereafter, Bohr concerned himself with developing peaceful uses of nuclear energy. Aage Bohr, Neil´s son was awarded the
Nobel Prize for physics in 1975.
 
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