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Niels Bohr was born and educated in Copenhagen, Denmark. ... Bohr was also one of the most foresighted of men, and one of the few who not only thought ahead about the post-World War II consequences of the atomic bomb, but who personally urged President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill to prepare for the nuclear future. ... After receiving his doctorate in 1911, Bohr went to England on a study grant and worked under Thomson, who had discovered the electron 15 years before.
Soon, Bohr began to study the atom’s structure. ... Bohr proposed adding the new idea of quanta, which was put forward by Max Planck in 1901, to the model.
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