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1885–1962
Niels Bohr
Explained how electrons sit in shells around the nucleus, and won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Element
107BhBohrium
1981
A Dubna team made element 107 in 1975, and a team led by Peter Armbruster and Gottfried Münzenberg at GSI in Darmstadt made it more convincingly in 1981. It was named bohrium, after Niels Bohr.
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