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Niels Bohr
The Dane who put quanta into the atom: the 1913 model and spectral lines, the Copenhagen institute, complementarity and the Copenhagen interpretation, the debates with Einstein, and his wartime escape and push for openness on nuclear weapons.
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Key idea
Prereqs: Atoms & nuclei; Quantum mechanics basics. Next: Heisenberg & Schrödinger; Dirac. Sources: Bohr, 'On the Constitution of Atoms and Molecules' (1913); Abraham Pais, *Niels Bohr's Times* (1991); Nobel Prize biography.Next: 1. Timeline