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History of the institute
1921-01-01
The establishment of an institute
Soon after being appointed professor at the University of Copenhagen in 1916, Bohr began lobbying for an institute devoted to physics.
1922-01-01
Hafnium
By the early 1920s Bohr was able to use his atomic theory to predict the properties of all chemical elements.
1925-01-01
The Copenhagen Interpretation
The famous discussions between Bohr and Albert Einstein at the 1927 and 1930 Solvay conferences...
1929-01-01
The Copenhagen conferences
The characteristic informal discussions between Bohr and his (most often) younger colleagues was institutionalised in 1929 with the..
1930-01-01
Nuclear physics and biology
In the first half of the 1930s interest in theoretical physics gradually turned from the outer part of the atom to its centre, the nucleus.
1953-01-01
The postwar period
After the war, the Niels Bohr Institute saw an enormous expansion. Postwar nuclear physics at the institute reached a high point in 1953...
