Physicist · 1885 – 1962

Niels Bohr

Little-Known Facts

Bohr helped many Jewish scientists flee Nazi Germany and himself escaped occupied Denmark in 1943.
He was a keen footballer; his brother Harald played for Denmark's Olympic team.

Is the Bohr model of the atom still considered correct?

It is a simplified picture superseded by full quantum mechanics, but it remains a useful teaching model and correctly predicts the hydrogen spectrum.