09/1911 AD met
Bohr, supported by a fellowship from the Carlsberg Foundation, travelled to England, where most of the theoretical work on the structure of atoms and molecules was being done.
He met J. J. Thomson of the Cavendish Laboratory and Trinity College, Cambridge. He attended lectures on electromagnetism given by James Jeans and Joseph Larmor, and did some research on cathode rays, but failed to impress Thomson.
He had more success with younger physicists like the Australian William Lawrence Bragg, and New Zealand's Ernest Rutherford, whose 1911 small central nucleus Rutherford model of the atom had challenged Thomson's 1904 plum pudding model.
Bohr received an invitation from Rutherford to conduct post-doctoral work at Victoria University of Manchester, where Bohr met George de Hevesy and Charles Galton Darwin (whom Bohr referred to as "the grandson of the real Darwin").
Subjects Who or What met?
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Niels Bohr Danish physicist who mad...
Objects To Whom or What was met?
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Ernest Rutherford (1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson) New Zealand physicist wh... -
J. J. Thomson (Sir Joseph John) British physicist and No... -
Lawrence Bragg Sir William Lawrence Bra...
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