Bohr, Niels
Bohr, Niels (1885–1962), along with Einstein, one of the two most influential physicists of the twentieth century.Bohr was born in Copenhagen, Denmark to affluent, well‐educated parents (his father was a professor of philosophy at the University of Copenhagen). Bohr became a professor at the University of Copenhagen in 1916 and in 1920 established the Institute for Theoretical Physics there, which quickly became a world‐recognized think tank frequented by the best scientific minds of the time. From this institute a new comprehension of the physical world emerged, which would have a profound impact on the remainder of the century and beyond: the observed and the observer were seen to interact; nature was both wave and particle; and philosophy and physics shared subject matter as issues of causality and interdeterminism were raised when Bohr and others deepened their understanding of nuclear fission.
In 1939, Bohr fled Denmark,...
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