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Definition of Niels Bohr

1. Noun. Danish physicist who studied atomic structure and radiations; the Bohr theory of the atom accounted for the spectrum of hydrogen (1885-1962).

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Literary usage of Niels Bohr

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1. The Cold War in Asia edited by James G. Hershberg (1996)
"People understood that only specialists, physicists-atomic scientists, are in a position to resolve whether or not Niels Bohr gave atomic secrets to the ..."

2. Paradoxes of Free Will by Gunther Siegmund Stent (2002)
"Several examples of such writings were presented in the collection of essays Niels Bohr and Contemporary Philosophy edited by Jan Faye and Henry J. Folse ..."

3. A New Guide to the Collections in the Library of the American Philosophical by J. Stephen Catlett (1987)
"On microfilm are manuscripts of Niels Henrick David Bohr and his scientific correspondence (62 reels from the Niels Bohr Archives, Univer- sitets Institut ..."

4. The Command of Light: Rowland's School of Physics and the Spectrum by George Kean Sweetnam (2000)
"... that.51 In the previous year, Niels Bohr had restated Ritz's generalized formula in his foundational essay, "On the Constitution of Atoms and Molecules. ..."

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