Philip Ball looks at how a little-known paper by Niels Bohr demonstrates the turmoil in physics on the brink of quantum ...

When Bragg was back in Cambridge from the 1940s, this subject proved crucial for the structural analysis of DNA and proteins. Niels Bohr won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics for investigating the ...

The Nobel Prize was awarded to Werner Heisenberg “for the foundation of quantum mechanics, the application of which led, among other things, to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen”.

Since the first prize was awarded in 1901, 1,000 people have won a Nobel Prize. Over two dozen Nobel Prize winners worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II.

Niels Bohr was born and educated in Copenhagen ... but his essential idea was proved correct. He received the Nobel Prize for this work in 1922, and it's what he's most famous for.

Twice in the space of a few days, I came across a dictum attributed to Niels Bohr, the renowned Danish physicist who in 1922 received a Nobel Prize for his work on the structure of the atom.