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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. Bohr was also a philosopher and a promoter of scientific research.
Vania Jordanova – United States, physicist, space weather and geomagnetic storms [1] Brian David Josephson – U.K. (born 1940) Nobel laureate; James Prescott Joule – U.K. (1818–1889) Adolfas Jucys – Lithuania (1904–1974) Chang Kee Jung – South Korea, United States
Physicist Niels Bohr is credited with creating the theory. The gunslinger effect , also sometimes called Bohr's law or the gunfighter's dilemma , is a psychophysical theory which says that an intentional or willed movement is slower than an automatic or reaction movement. [ 1 ]
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 ...
Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen; Niels Bohr International Gold Medal; Neil's Bahr, a popular comic and science-fiction based bar in Houston, Texas; At the CERN site in Meyrin, close to Geneva, there is a street called Route Bohr and an auditorium called Salle Bohr in honour of Niels Bohr; Niels Bohr Library & Archives of American Institute ...
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius is a 2009 biography of quantum physicist Paul Dirac written by British physicist and author, Graham Farmelo, and published by Faber and Faber. The book won the Biography Award at the 2009 Costa Book Awards, [1] and the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology. [2]
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 ...