Word: bohr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Alamos is a majestic ivory mesa artificially painted onto the national landscape by men named Oppenheimer, Fermi, Bohr, Feynman, Kistiakowsky, Szilard and Fuchs. "At great expense, we have gathered on this mesa the largest collection of crackpots ever seen," General Leslie R. Groves told his assembled officers at the remote outpost in the New Mexico wilderness during the darkest days of World War II. "And it's your job to keep them happy...
...before the Supreme Court, now tutoring the Princeton prodigy who independently discovered the atomic bomb? Because, it seems, he gave up on himself as a pure theoretical physicist. "I was," writes Dyson, "and always have remained, a problem solver rather than a creator of ideas. I can not, as Bohr and Feynmann did, sit for years with my mind concentrated on one deep question...
Weinberg wrote his pioneering paper in 1967 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Karl Strauch, chairman of the Physics department, said yesterday. Glashow said the award citation appeared to refer to his work in 1960 at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen...
Copenhagen and Zurich: Personal Reminiscences of Bohr and Pauli--Hendrik B.G. Casimir, president emeritus, Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences, Science Center...
...role of probability in quantum mechanics, Einstein felt that it failed to meet his crucial standard. The universe, he insisted, could not operate on chance. Causality had to exist. Again and again, he would say such things as "God does not play dice." Exasperated, the Danish physicist Niels Bohr, Einstein's friendly adversary, finally replied, "Stop telling God what...