Niels Bohr
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Physics is to be regarded not so much as the study of something a priori given, but rather as the development of methods of ordering and surveying human experience.
— "The Unity of Human Knowledge" (October 1960)
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
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He gave the atom its architecture — orbits, quantum jumps, the idea that electrons don't drift but leap between fixed energy levels. That model opened the door, and though later physics walked through to stranger rooms, the threshold was his.
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Niels Henrik David Bohr was born in Copenhagen on 7 October 1885. He built the Bohr model of the atom, proposing discrete energy levels and stable orbits, and later conceived the principle of complementarity: that things could behave as both wave and particle depending on how you looked. In 1922 he won the Nobel Prize in Physics. He founded the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of Copenhagen in 1920, where he mentored Heisenberg, Kramers, Klein, and de Hevesy, and predicted the existence of hafnium, named for the city where it was found. When Denmark fell to Germany in 1943, B…
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Niels Bohr
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An expert is a person who has found out by his own painful experience all the mistakes that one can make in a very narrow field.
— As quoted by Edward Teller, in Dr. Edward Teller's Magnificent Obsession by Robert Coughlan, in LIFE magazine (6 September 1954), p. 62
Niels Bohr
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Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.
— In a 1952 conversation with Heisenberg and Pauli in Copenhagen; quoted in Heisenberg, Werner, Physics and Beyond. (New York: Harper & Row,
Niels Bohr
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However far the phenomena transcend the scope of classical physical explanation, the account of all evidence must be expressed in classical terms.
— Niels Bohr, "Discussions with Einstein on Epistemological Problems in Atomic Physics," in , Albert Einstein: Philosopher Scientist (1949)
Niels Bohr
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Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems.
— "Atomic Physics and the Description of Nature" (1934)
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