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Niels Bohr received his doctorate physics from the University of Copenhagen in 1911. After this, he moved to England, where he worked on a new model of the atom. Bohr stated that due to quantum mechanics, an atom can only exist in a discrete set of energy states. He completed this theory in 1913. His work on the atom gained him a physics chair at the University of Copenhagen. Though his work on the atom was probably Bohr's most important work, and certainly his most well known, he did not receive the Nobel Prize for it. Instead, he won the Prize in 1922 for his work on radiation. Bohr continued to work on quantum theory, and eventually brought it into the state that it is in today. |