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Niels Bohr
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Born
October 7
,
1885
·
Copenhagen, Denmark
Died
November 18
,
1962
·
Copenhagen, Denmark
(heart attack)
Birth name
Niels Henrik David Bohr
Mini Bio
Niels Bohr was born on October 7, 1885 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was married to Margrethe Norlund. He died on November 18, 1962 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Family
Spouse
Margrethe Norlund
(August 1, 1912 - November 18, 1962) (his death, 6 children)
Trivia
He and fellow physicist
Werner Heisenberg
are characters in
Copenhagen (2002)
,
Howard Davies
' adaptation of
Michael Frayn
's award-winning stage play.
Won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922 "for his services in the investigation of the structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from them".
Mentioned in
One World or None (1946)
.
Quotes
It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about Nature.
If anybody says he can think about quantum problems without getting giddy, that only show he has not understood the first thing about them.
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
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