Coordinates: 55°41′48.29″N 12°34′16.80″E / 55.6967472°N 12.5713333°E
The Niels Bohr Institute is a research institute at the University of Copenhagen. The research of the institute spans astronomy, geophysics, nanotechnology, particle physics, quantum mechanics and biophysics.
The Institute was founded in 1921 by the Danish theoretical physicist Niels Bohr, who had on the staff of the University of Copenhagen 1914 onwards and who had been lobbying for the creation since he was appointed professor in 1916. On the 80th anniversary of Niels Bohr's birth - October 7, 1965 - the Institute for Theoretical Physics of the University of Copenhagen officially became The Niels Bohr Institute. Some of its original funding came from the Carlsberg brewery.
During the 1920s, and 1930s, the Institute was the center of the developing disciplines of atomic physics and quantum physics. Physicists from across Europe (and sometimes further abroad) often visited the Institute to confer with Bohr on new theories and discoveries. The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics is named after work done at the Institute during this time.
On January 1, 1993 the institute was fused with the Astronomic Observatory, the Ørsted Laboratory and the Geophysical Institute. The new resulting institute retained the name Niels Bohr Institute.
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