Their idea turned out to be wrong, but in interesting and provocative ways, and it demonstrates the intense turmoil in physics on the brink of quantum mechanics Brilliant mind Illustration of the ...

As physicists like Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein began to study particles, they discovered new physics laws that were downright quirky. These were the laws of quantum mechanics, and they got ...

Niels Bohr’s base of theoretical operations lent its name to what became known as the “Copenhagen interpretation” of quantum ...

Photo: Niels Bohr's research ... other investigators refined Bohr's theory, but his bold application of new ideas paved the way for the development of quantum mechanics. Bohr went on to make ...

Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute ... understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. Bohr mentored and collaborated with ...