Word: copenhagen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...International Education Board, a Rockefeller philanthropy, appropriated $40,000 for Prof. Niels Bohr, the atomic expert of the University of Copenhagen (TIME, Nov. 19), for the enlargement of his research laboratory in theoretical physics. American physicists as well as others from foreign countries will conduct investigations in the Danish laboratory, which is supported in part by the Danish government. Dr. Bohr will specialize on investigation of the infra-red region of the spectrum and on X-ray spectra...
Precautionary measures were taken: sentinels doubled, ball ammunition issued, etc. Nothing happened. The Chief of Police at Copenhagen said he thought the letter was from a lunatic...
...Bishops considered Bishop Blake's defense in closed session and passed a resolution thanking him as well as Bishop John L. Nuelson of Zurich (in whose area Russia lies) and Bishop Anton Bast of Copenhagen for "fidelity and devotion " in carrying out "a delicate mission." No contribution to the fund of $51,000 was promised, however, nor was there any endorsement of the Living Church...
...Neils Bohr, professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen, winner of the Nobel prize in physics for 1922, gave the Silliman lectures at Yale University on The Atom and the Natural System of the Elements. Dr. Bohr was not the pioneer of the electronic theory of the atom, but he has greatly refined and expanded it, and stands with Thomson, Rutherford, Lodge, Millikan as one of the world's foremost exponents of the " new " physics. A few points of special interest in Dr. Bohr's lectures...
Under the headline-YOU RICH GIRLS, HERE COMES KING SEEKING A BRIDE!, the New York American printed a Universal Service press despatch which announced the imminent world tour of Tsar Boris of Bulgaria. According to this report, the King will go to Rome, Paris, Brussels, London, Berlin, Copenhagen looking for a princess with whom to mate. If he is unsuccessful, he will come to the U. S. and " unite the Saxe-Coburg und Gotha dynasty with the new aristocracy of wealth...