Word: bohr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...renowned chemist himself, Chaim Weizmann had originally hoped to establish a haven in Rehovot for émigré Jewish scientists. A number of illustrious names-Einstein, Bohr, Von Neumann -did advise the institute in its early years, but none chose to make it their permanent home. Instead of importing a scientific elite, Israel was forced to produce its own; 80% of the institute's permanent staff is Israeli. Unlike many labs elsewhere, it enjoys what its scientific council chief, Mathematician Joseph Gillis, calls "a negative brain drain": far more scientists are trying to get in than to leave...
...Institute has achieved almost equal renown in physics, thanks in part to the presence of such formative thinkers as Einstein and Niels Bohr. Discoveries recorded there include Oppenheimer's work in particle physics, George Placzek's separation of slow neutrons from solids. Among its historians, probably the most influential is Art Historian Erwin Panofksy, author of the definitive biography...
...much in inflating Senator Joe McCarthy, who appears as a dark, looming cloud over Washington, but rather in what Oppenheimer himself sharply calls "improvisations which were contrary to history and to the nature of the people involved." Oppenheimer branded as false the script's statement that Physicist Niels Bohr disapproved of the work at Los Alamos because he was worried about domination by the military. "Bohr understood and welcomed what we were doing," says Oppenheimer. An even graver distortion is the script's assertion that Oppenheimer felt that in making the bomb, "we have done the work...
...Elaine Leachman of Los Alamos, N. Mex., speaks French, Spanish, Swedish, Russian - and Danish acquired while her physicist father was posted at the Nils Bohr Institute in Denmark. In Copenhagen she won second place in a French contest, represented Denmark on a trip to Paris. She helps with a class for retarded children, will train as a language teacher at Stanford...
...EDWIN T. BOHR...