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He was soon appointed a docent in Copenhagen, which did not please him and he wrote a letter in 1914 to the Department of Education Affairs asking to if they would start a professorship in theoretical physics and give him the position.  While waiting for the Department to confirm the post, which was not confirmed until 1916, he left to join Rutherford’s group as Schuster Reader for a year, but soon World War I made being in Manchester difficult.

In 1917, Bohr was elected to the Danish Academy of Sciences and began to plan an Institute of Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen.  This institute was created for him and he became its director from 1921, until his death in 1962.  In 1922, Bohr won the Nobel Prize for physics for his work on radiation.  He gave a lecture on his work in Stockholm, in which he talked about atomic stability and electrodynamic theory giving an account for the origins of the hydrogen spectrum, quantum theory, and explaining the relationships between the elements.