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...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...
...applause of the guests who had come to honor him. Robert Williams Wood was in his soth year as a full professor at Johns Hopkins University, and the brightest names in the scientific world wanted to help celebrate the occasion. Albert Einstein had written to pay his respects, Niels Bohr had cabled from Copenhagen, Robert A. Millikan, Harlow Shapley and Karl Compton all sent messages. In 50 years, scientists all over the world have grown accustomed to paying tribute to Professor Wood-and Johns Hopkins has grown just as used to having him as a legend...
...told my wife I would give the information." Sergeant Greenglass told his wife the layout of the Los Alamos buildings, the number of workers, and the big names he knew-Dr. Robert Oppenheimer and a scientist known only as "Baker" who, Greenglass had learned, was really Dr. Niels Bohr. His wife, on Rosenberg's instructions, wrote none of the information down but dutifully memorized it all. On furlough in New York in January 1945, Greenglass really delivered...