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Aage Niels Bohr (Danish: [ˈɔːwə ˈne̝ls ˈpoɐ̯ˀ] ⓘ; 19 June 1922 – 8 September 2009) was a Danish nuclear physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1975 with Ben Roy Mottelson and James Rainwater "for the discovery of the connection between collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of the atomic nucleus based ...
Niels Henrik David Bohr (7 October 1885 – 18 November 1962) was a Danish theoretical physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.
Richard Phillips Feynman (/ ˈ f aɪ n m ə n /; May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American theoretical physicist.He is best known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, and in particle physics, for which he proposed the parton model.
The first Danish Nobel laureate was Niels Ryberg Finsen, who won a Nobel Prize for medicine in 1903 for his work on using light therapy to treat diseases. The most recent Danish Nobel Prize winner was Morten Meldal who won the prize in chemistry in 2022 for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry. To date, of the 14 Nobel ...
Scandinavian powerhouse Nordisk Film is lining up English-language biopics of Danish icons Karen Blixen, writer of acclaimed memoir Out Of Africa, and physicist Niels Bohr. Nordisk has acquired ...
These answers were also correct, yet none of them proved the student's competence in the specific academic field being tested. The barometer question achieved the status of an urban legend ; according to an internet meme , the question was asked at the University of Copenhagen and the student was Niels Bohr . [ 2 ]
When Danish Physicist Niels Bohr was awarded Denmark's highest honor and the opportunity to create a family coat of arms, he chose the yin-yang symbol, and Latin motto contraria sunt complementa, "opposites are complementary", [13] a nod to his Principle of Complementarity.
The name MAUD came from a strange line in a telegram from Danish physicist Niels Bohr referring to his housekeeper, Maud Ray. The MAUD Committee was founded in response to the Frisch–Peierls memorandum , which was written in March 1940 by Rudolf Peierls and Otto Frisch , two physicists who were refugees from Nazi Germany working at the ...