Philip Ball looks at how a little-known paper by Niels Bohr demonstrates the turmoil in physics on the brink of quantum ...

Photo: Niels Bohr's research notes for his new ... be knocked out of position if a charged particle passed by. Bohr turned to Planck's quantum theory to explain the stability of most atoms.

Niels Bohr was born and educated ... collapsing the atom. Bohr proposed adding to the model the new idea of quanta put forth by Max Planck in 1901. That way, electrons existed at set levels ...

As profound as was the work of Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr in physics, their thoughts and practice in education were of the same nature. In 1952 Einstein wrote an article titled, “Education f ...

Max Planck was told that there was ... for involvement in a plot to assassinate Hitler. Planck himself openly opposed Nazi persecutions and intervened on behalf of Jewish scientists. He praised ...