Niels Bohr Niels-Bohr

Mentored By

J.J. Thomson

Ernest Rutherford

Interested in models of atom

Johann Balmer

Balmer's Equation for Spectroscopy

Electrons have energy states

Johannes Rydberg

generalizes

Confirms

"Copenhagen Interpretation"

Werner Heisenberg

Collaboration

Uncertainty Principle

de Broglie

Wave-particle Duality

Erwin Schrödinger Erwin_Schrödinger_(1933)

Standing waves Atomic Model

Atoms are Electrons sitting in Energy States

Accurate Models

Bakerian Lecture

Proposed existence of Neutron

James Chadwick

Student and research assistant of

Confirms Experimentally

Leó Szilárd

Outlines Nuclear Power Production

Otto Hahn

Lise Meitner

Name and produce fission of Uranium

Bohr was a foundational physicist by all meaning of the word. Having been appointed to the University of Copenhagen under the second professorship in physics at the college, he was quick to grow a separate institute. Motivated by the cramped quarters of his first-year appointment inside the Polytechnic Institute, he wrote a lengthy letter asking for his faculty to establish an institute. The institute opens a few years later, named “Bohr’s Institute for Theoretical Physics”. Bohr establishes two goals in his inauguration speech, that the institute will become a home for the ever-important experimenters and the younger generation of physicists. These goals are accomplished quickly and beyond expectations. Source

Schrödinger was happily married to Annemarie Bertel, although in a way many found to be non-traditional. His relationship could be best described as “open” in modern terms. He had a least three children; however, he had no children with his wife. He kept a journal of his relationships, where he goes into detail about seducing and impregnating a young girl he was acting as a math tutor for. His most famous Mistress was Hilde March, wife to his colleague Arthur March, with which he had his daughter Ruth Georgie Erica. This was apparently well known to Arthur, who was a lover to Schrödinger’s wife. Source

confirming