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Previous | Home | NextCloseup of Ernest Rutherford's relief. Bohr had traveled in 1911 to work with J. J. Thompson at Cambridge University (discoverer of the electron), but found the research climate more to his liking with Ernest Rutherford at the University of Manchester and moved there the next year. It was there that Bohr conceived of the "Bohr model" of the atom that explained the spectral lines of elements.
