Niels Bohr
A physicist who in 1913 proposed a model of the atom with permitted electron orbits and took the Nobel Prize for it; his institute in Copenhagen became the place where quantum mechanics took shape. His long argument with Einstein over whether God plays dice remains the best-known disagreement in the physics of the century.
Born in Copenhagen on 7 October 1885 at 08:00 local mean time: Denmark adopted Central European Time in 1894. The hour is given consistently in references.