Niels Henrick David Bohr has made enormous contributions to the world of science. Bohr united the original atomic model by Ernest Rutherford and the quantum concepts of Plank and Einstein to create a more advanced atomic model in which atoms had shells built up of successive orbital layers of electrons. His atomic structure created a basis for the periodic table of elements. With his atomic and quantum theories, Bohr awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922, the Royal Society Copley Medal in 1938, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1926.

Bohr explains the source of his inspiration when he wrote "My interest in the study was awakened while I was still in school, largely owing to the influence of my father," in 1922. Bohr's father was Christian Bohr. Christian Bohr was a physiologist at the University of Copenhagen. Christian Bohr was married to Ellen Adler, the daughter...