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
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