Niels Bohr was born in Copenhagen. A theoretical physicist, he is among the founders of quantum mechanics. Starting with a classical approach, that is, the formulation of an electromagnetic model applied to atomic structure (for which he won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922) he brought to light the need to overcome such precepts in order to account for quantum aspects, which by then were becoming more and more evident. Bohr, in conjunction with Louis de Broglie, is credited with the original suggestion of a complementary relationship between waves and corpuscles in the phenomenology of particles. He added to this formulation his perception of an anti-dialectical philosophical possibility, in which opposing forces are not overcome by synthesis; rather, they remain as distinct dimensions, correlative to reality. This is probably a variation of the view of the philosopher H. Høffding, a pupil of Kierkegaard and a relative of Bohr's. He worked on the Manhattan Project, and after World War II he adopted the use of nuclear energy for peaceful ends and for nuclear simulation. Bohr received the first Atoms for Peace Award, given by the Ford Foundation. He returned to Copenhagen where he was one of the founders of the European Organization for Nuclear Research. He died on November 18, 1962.