Word: bohr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scientist with one of the strongest claims to being Father of the Atom, Denmark's gentle-spoken Niels Bohr, 71, whose pioneering plunge into the heart of his subject won him a Nobel Prize...
Gravely and matter-of-factly, Dr. Roscoe G. Bartlett, 29, now with the National Institutes of Health, described experiments that he had carried out with Dr. Vernon C. Bohr at a university which he refused to name. This sort of secrecy had extended to the experiments: three volunteer married couples took part, but their identities were not known to the researchers-only to an intermediary. On separate occasions, in a suitably private room, each volunteer couple attached wires and electrodes to themselves. These were connected with the scientists' recording instruments in another room. Then they had sexual intercourse. Before...
...scientists asked to sign the statement, only nine (including Russell and Einstein) did so. Communist Curie signed only after making a reservation to the effect that revolutions should not be included in the renunciation. Among the scientists who refused to sign were eight Nobel Prizewinners, including Niels Bohr of Denmark and Arthur H. Compton and Harold C. Urey of the U.S., who apparently were devoting their interest to science...
Retreat into Mystery. Two weeks after Fermi reached New York, he heard about the famous telegram telling Niels Bohr that uranium fission had been discovered in Germany. Fermi knew what it meant: that enormous energy might be extracted from the uranium atom. Soon he was part of the vast U.S. attempt to release that energy in an atomic bomb...
...only a part of the foundation's interests. It helped finance the Shakespeare Memorial Theater in Stratford-upon-Avon,,gave nearly $2,000,000 for a new site for the University of London. It contributed to Columbia's Institute for Russian Studies, sent money to Physicist Niels Bohr for his Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Copenhagen...