Bohr T-Shirt | The Atom As a Viking Shield

In 1913, the Danish physicist Niels Bohr proposed a new picture of the atom: a dense nucleus with electrons circling it on fixed orbits, able to jump between them but never to sit anywhere in between. The model explained the light given off by hydrogen and helped launch quantum physics. Bohr received the physics prize in Stockholm in 1922, and his institute in Copenhagen became a meeting place for the great physicists of the age.

This design draws his atom on a Viking round shield, the kind carried across Scandinavia a thousand years earlier. An iron rim and rivets frame concentric bands of red, black and cream, and at the center sits the nucleus with its electrons on neat circular orbits. Danish defense and Danish discovery, on one shield.

Choose your shirt

• Heavyweight: Comfort Colors 1717, 6.1 oz (206 g/m²) ring-spun cotton, garment-dyed for a soft, lived-in feel. Relaxed unisex fit; size down for a closer fit.
• Classic: Gildan 5000, 5.3 oz (180 g/m²) 100% cotton. Regular unisex fit. The same print, for less.

Printed to order: in the EU (Riga) for European orders, in the US for American ones.

Care: wash cold inside out, tumble dry low or hang dry, do not iron the print.