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Bohr, Niels
Bohr, Niels
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Name
Bohr, Niels
Date of birth
1885-10-07
Date of death
1962-11-18
Place of birth
Denmark, Copenhagen
Place of death
Denmark, Copenhagen
Nationality
Danish
Occupation
Laureate of the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the structure of the atom; Delivered the first Karl Taylor Compton Lectures at MIT in 1957
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1885-1962
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