Niels Bohr
Born October 7, 1885, Bohr was a Danish physicist who made fundamental contributions to our understanding of atomic structure and quantum mechanics for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1922. Bohr is widely considered one of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century. He was the first to prove that electrons travel in discrete orbits around an atom’s nucleus and that the the chemical properties of every element are largely determined by the number of electrons in each of these orbits. His extensive work on the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics led him to the principle of complementarity: that quantum (subatomic) energy phenomena could be separately analyzed as having several contradictory properties that operate within a single intelligent framework. His investigations led him to conclude that energy at the quantum level appears to be governed by one vast thought, expressing itself as quantum energy, which then masquerades as a complex physical universe (see unified field theory).
