NIELS BOHR

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• NIELS BOHR (noun)
  The noun NIELS BOHR has 1 sense:

1. Danish physicist who studied atomic structure and radiations; the Bohr theory of the atom accounted for the spectrum of hydrogen (1885-1962)

  Familiarity information: NIELS BOHR used as a noun is very rare.

• NIELS BOHR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Danish physicist who studied atomic structure and radiations; the Bohr theory of the atom accounted for the spectrum of hydrogen (1885-1962)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Bohr; Niels Bohr; Niels Henrik David Bohr

Instance hypernyms:

nuclear physicist (a physicist who specializes in nuclear physics)

 Context examples 

Astronomers from the Dark Cosmology Center at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark discovered the first example of a compact yet massive, fast-spinning, disk-shaped galaxy that stopped making stars only a few billion years after the big bang.

(Massive Dead Disk Galaxy Challenges Theories of Galaxy Evolution, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)