Niels Bohr was a Danish physicist born in 1885 who took his Master's degree in Physics in 1909 and his Doctor's degree in 1911. He is known for his work developing the Bohr model of the atom, which depicted the atom as a small, positively charged nucleus surrounded by electrons that travel in fixed, circular orbits. Bohr won a Nobel Prize for his research using experiments with hydrogen atoms to discover that electrons can only occupy specific allowed orbits and jump between these orbits by absorbing or emitting packets of electromagnetic radiation. His work laid the foundation for later atomic shell models and was influential in the development of quantum mechanics.