Niels Bohr was born and educated in Copenhagen ... Bohr began to work on the problem of the atom's structure. Ernest Rutherford had recently suggested the atom had a miniature, dense nucleus ...

When an electron dropped from a high-energy orbit to a lower-energy one, it gave out light with an energy equal to the ...

Ernest Rutherford's family emigrated from England ... Acceptance of this model grew after it was modified with quantum theory by Niels Bohr. For his work with radiation and the atomic nucleus ...

Rutherford's work with Niels Bohr in the 1920s, predicting the existence of neutrons, was later confirmed in an experiment by Rutherford's colleagues. "John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton developed a ...

Niels Bohr adapted Ernest Rutherford's nuclear model. Bohr did calculations that led him to suggest that electrons orbit the nucleus in shells. The shells are at certain distances from the nucleus.

Niels Bohr was a passionate footballer as well ... Thomson at Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1912 he joined Ernest Rutherford at Manchester University and he adapted Rutherford's nuclear structure ...