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OCR: NIELS BOHR (1885 1962) ANISH PHYSICISI Niels Bohr became famous for creating new way of picturing the struct ture the atom that led to the birth modern nuclear physics. He studied IT ondon England, with two English physicists, Ernest Rutherford (1871 1937) and J.I Thomson (1856 1940) applying quantum theory to Rutherford' ideas about the structure the atom This resulted 1t h Rutherford- Bohr atom. Back in Copenhagen in 1916 Bohr discovered the principle pesn to build nuclear wea pons. In 1943 he fled German- -occupied Denmark for the United States, where he advised on the development of the atomic bomb. He later campaigned for arms control. SFE LFE OLSO STORY PHYSICIST picturine London used