Sunday is the 127th birthday of physicist Niels Bohr and Google celebrated the event by placing a on the Google home page; the news has created an Internet buzz Sunday morning. Google periodically displays a Google doodle to celebrate a birthday or event from history, and as people pull up the Google homepage, they try to discover what the doodle is about for that day. See the links below for other Google doodles.
Niels Henrik David Bohr was born in 1885 in Copenhagen, Denmark and he won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. He was well known in the science world for his incredible understanding of atomic structure and quantum mechanics.
Neils also had a strong influence on his family and his son, Aage Bohr, also received the Nobel Prize in 1975.
Niels Bohr was well known for the “Copenhagen interpretation, Complementarity, Bohr model, Sommerfeld–Bohr theory, BKS theory, Bohr-Einstein debates and Bohr magneton,” according to Seroundtable.com.
See the Google doodle for Sunday, October 07, 2012 above.
Bohr died in 1962.
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