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Longwinded...
First off, I am a physics major so i am quite familiar with Bohr and his fantastic acheivements!I read this book for a history of science and technology class and found it to be quite longwinded.The author goes into detail about events she has no knowledge of, for instance she says describes how Bohr looked at the water in the fountain of the Institute - there is no way she could know that(the only on being Bohr himself), just that he sat out by the water thinking about something.My other gripe with this book is the chronology - while generally sticking to the right order, several chapters moved forward a few years then back again.In once chapter the author talks about Bohr and his going to America to work on the Manhattan Project, at one point it's 1940 and he is in sweden, next page it's 1943 and Bohr and his son have gone to the USA, only to find two paragraphs down it's back t0 1941, Bohr writing a letter to a colleage about his proposed trip to the USA.Now this book does contain a lot of information on the man who turned the quantum world on it's head, but something better could be written...and doesn't a man of Bohr's stature deserve a good biography?

Biography of Niels Bohr
This biography recalls the entire life of Niels Bohr, one of the preeminent scientists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; the author even likens his influence to Aristotle's. Though focusing primarily on his scientific life, the book traces his life from his promising beginnings in Denmark until his death in 1962. Also included is the author's assertion that Bohr was nearly able to halt the nuclear Arms race that spawned the Cold War. Other notables that are mentioned in conjunction with Bohr include: James Franck, Lord Rutherford, Werner Heisenberg, Enrico Fermi, Sir John Cockcroft, Ernest Lawrence, and Adlai Stevenson. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Niels Henrik David Bohr (7 October 1885 ? 18 November 1962) was a Danish physicist who made fundamental contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. Bohr mentored and collaborated with many of the top physicists of the century at his institute in Copenhagen. He was part of a team of physicists working on the Manhattan Project. Bohr married Margrethe Nørlund in 1912, and one of their sons, Aage Bohr, grew up to be an important physicist who in 1975 also received the Nobel prize. Bohr has been described as one of the most influential physicists of the 20th century. ... Read more

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Chapters: Niels Bohr, Ernest Rutherford, A. J. P. Taylor, James Chadwick, Hans Bethe, Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett, Chaim Weizmann, William Lawrence Bragg, F. F. Bruce, Kevin T. Kelly, Ramsay Muir, Osborne Reynolds, Sydney Chapman, Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, Harold Davenport, Henry Enfield Roscoe, Frank Adams, Tom Kilburn, Louis Mordell, Norman Blacklock, James Barr, Robert William Boyle, C. Thomas Elliott, Frederic Calland Williams, Adolphus William Ward, Kurt Mahler, C. H. Herford, Julius Dreschfeld, Richard C. Harrington. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 151. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Alan John Percival Taylor, FBA (25 March 1906 7 September 1990) was a renowned English historian of the 20th century. Taylor was born in Birkdale, near Southport, of Scottish descent and was brought up in Lancashire. He was educated at various Quaker schools including Bootham School in York. As a student he was described by his headmasters to be brilliant and rebellious. Initially he had an interest in archaeology, and as a young man he was an amateur expert in the history and archaeology of churches in northern England. His interest in archaeology led to a strong interest in history. In 1924, he went to Oriel College, Oxford to study modern history. His wealthy parents held strongly left-wing views, which he inherited. His parents were both pacifists who vocally opposed World War I, and sent their son to Quaker schools as a way of protesting against the war. In the 1920s, Taylor's mother, Constance, was a member of the Comintern and one of his uncles a founding member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Constance was a suffragette, feminist, and advocate of free love who practised her teachings via a string of extramarital affairs, most notably with Henry Sara, a communist who ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=140444 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Niels Bohr, Bohr Model, Bohrium, Aage Bohr, Niels Bohr Institute, Harald Bohr, Bohr-einstein Debates, Bks Theory, Complementarity, Bohr Effect, Christian Bohr, 3948 Bohr. Excerpt:3948 Bohr is a small main belt asteroid . It was discovered by Poul Jensen in 1985. It is named after the Danish physicist Niels Bohr (1885 1962). A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Aage Niels Bohr Aage Niels Bohr (Danish pronunciation: ( listen); 19 June 1922 8 September 2009) was a Danish nuclear physicist and Nobel laureate , and the son of Niels and Margrethe Bohr. Life and career Bohr was born in Copenhagen in 1922, and grew up surrounded by physicists such as Wolfgang Pauli and Werner Heisenberg , who were working with his father at the Institute for Theoretical Physics (now the Niels Bohr Institute ) at the University of Copenhagen . In 1940, shortly after the German occupation of Denmark, Bohr began his physics degree at the University of Copenhagen. In October 1943, shortly before he was to be arrested by the German police, Niels Bohr escaped to Sweden with his family, later travelling to London and on to work on the Manhattan Project . During this time, Aage Bohr travelled with his father, acting as his assistant and secretary. The Bohrs returned to Denmark in 1945, and Aage returned to University, graduating with a master's degree in 1946, with a thesis concerned with some aspects of atomic stopping problems. Following graduation, he became an associate at the Niels Bohr Institute. Bohr worked at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in early 1948, and later at Columbia University from January 1949 to August 1950. While in the US, Bohr married Marietta Soffer; the couple had three children, Vilhelm, Tomas and Margrethe. Bohr became a professor at the University of Copenhage... ... Read more

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Der Erwerb des Buches enthält gleichzeitig die kostenlose Mitgliedschaft im Buchklub des Verlags zum Ausprobieren - dort können Sie von über einer Million Bücher ohne weitere Kosten auswählen. Das Buch besteht aus Wikipedia-Artikeln: Alan Turing, Ernest Rutherford, Hans Bethe, William Lawrence Bragg, Niels Bohr, Carl Joachim Friedrich, Louis Mordell, Otto Skutsch, Samuel Edwards, Brian Cox, Alexander Robertus Todd, Maurice Bartlett, John Frederick Dewey, Dennis Sharp, Ian Macdonald, Brian Flowers, Baron Flowers, Ian Kershaw, William Waterhouse, Richard C. Harrington, Ian Steedman, Tom Kirkwood, Anthony R. Birley, George Herbert Bailey, Peter Worsley, Derek Bowett, Barry Cooper, Samuel Alexander, Peter Whittle, Léon Rosenfeld, Alex Wilkie, David Bain, Jeff Paris, Henry Alexander Miers, John Andrew Boyle, Max Gluckman, Sheila Rowbotham, Ferdynand Zweig, Patricia Duncker, Werner Müller, Peter Aczel, Terence Greaves,. Online finden Sie die kostenlose Aktualisierung der Bücher. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Alan Mathison Turing (* 23. Juni 1912 in London; † 7. Juni 1954 in Wilmslow, Cheshire) war ein britischer Logiker, Mathematiker und Kryptoanalytiker. Er gilt heute als einer der einflussreichsten Theoretiker der frühen Computerentwicklung und Informatik. Turing schuf einen großen Teil der theoretischen Grundlagen für die moderne Informations- und Computertechnologie. Als richtungsweisend erwiesen sich auch seine Beiträge zur theoretischen Biologie. Das von ihm entwickelte Berechenbarkeitsmodell der Turingmaschine bildet eines der Fundamente der theoretischen Informatik. Während des Zweiten Weltkrieges war er maßgeblich an der Entzifferung der mit der Enigma verschlüsselten deutschen Funksprüche beteiligt. Der Großteil seiner Arbeiten blieb nach Kriegsende jedoch unter Verschluss. Turing entwickelte 1953 eines der ersten Schachprogramme, dessen Berechnungen er mangels Hardware selbst durchführte. Nach ihm benannt ist der Turing Award, ...http://booksllc.net/?l=de&id=121 ... Read more

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Chapters: Niels Bohr, Victor Borge, Aron Nimzowitsch, Arne Jacobsen, Gabriel Milan, Erik Erikson, William Leidesdorff, Georg Brandes, Lee Oskar, C.l. David, Ivan Joseph Martin Osiier, Naphtali Hirz Wessely, Leo Goldberger, Ludwig Lewin Jacobson, Peter Freuchen, Isaac Abraham Euchel, Michael Melchior, Meïr Aron Goldschmidt, Heinrich Hirschsprung, Raquel Rastenni, Benjamin Musaphia, Edvard Brandes, Marcus Choleva, Herbert Pundik, Nikolaj Znaider, Nicolai Gedalia, Ellen Osiier, Arne Melchior, Bergnart Carl Lewy, Danny Nir'on. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 140. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Niels Henrik David Bohr (Danish pronunciation: ; 7 October 1885 18 November 1962) was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. Bohr mentored and collaborated with many of the top physicists of the century at his institute in Copenhagen. He was part of a team of physicists working on the Manhattan Project. Bohr married Margrethe Nørlund in 1912, and one of their sons, Aage Bohr, grew up to be an important physicist who in 1975 also received the Nobel prize. Bohr has been described as one of the most influential physicists of the 20th century. Bohr was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1885. His father, Christian Bohr, a devout Lutheran, was professor of physiology at the University of Copenhagen (it is his name which is given to the Bohr shift or Bohr effect), while his mother, Ellen Adler Bohr, came from a wealthy Jewish family prominent in Danish banking and parliamentary circles. His brother was Harald Bohr, a mathematician and Olympic footballer who played on the Danish national team. Niels Bohr was a passionate footballer as well, and the two brothers played a numbe...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=21210 ... Read more

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Chapters: Niels Bohr, Tycho Brahe, Margrethe Ii of Denmark, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Nikolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, Hans Tausen, Anker Jørgensen, Christiern Pedersen, Peter Sørensen Vig, Anton Marius Andersen, Poul Schlüter, Paul Egede, Lene Espersen, Gottlieb Bender Christiansen, Johan Rantzau, Thorkild Grosbøll, Kristian Ostergaard, Poul Hartling, Nina, Baroness Van Pallandt, Flemming Kofod-Svendsen, Niels Hemmingsen. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 133. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Tycho Brahe (14 December 1546 24 October 1601), born Tyge Ottesen Brahe (de Knudstrup), was a Danish nobleman known for his accurate and comprehensive astronomical and planetary observations. Coming from Scania, then part of Denmark, now part of modern-day Sweden, Tycho was well known in his lifetime as an astronomer and alchemist. His Danish name "Tyge Ottesen Brahe" is pronounced in Modern Standard Danish as . He adopted the Latinized name "Tycho Brahe" (usually pronounced or in English) from Tycho (sometimes written Tÿcho) at around age fifteen, and he is now generally referred to as "Tycho", as was common in Scandinavia in his time, rather than by his surname "Brahe". (The incorrect form of his name, Tycho de Brahe, appeared only much later.) Tycho Brahe was granted an estate on the island of Hven and the funding to build the Uraniborg, an early research institute, where he built large astronomical instruments and took many careful measurements. After disagreements with the new king in 1597, he was invited by the Bohemian king and Holy Roman emperor Rudolph II to Prague, where he became the official imperial astronomer. He built the new observatory at Benátky nad Jizerou. Here, from 1600 until his death in 1601, he was assisted by Johannes Kepler....More: http://booksllc.net/?id=30027 ... Read more

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With a natural emphasis on his scientific contributions, this limited edition set documents all aspects of Bohr's life and work. Each of the twelve volumes is introduced and edited by a physicist or scholar with particular knowledge of the subject in question and as a bonus a supplementary index volume has now been prepared for the whole set.

All volumes are illustrated with rare photos, and Bohr's publications are supplemented with carefully selected manuscripts and correspondence documenting the background for his work and his milieu. The Niels Bohr Collected Works constitute a unique resource for collectors and anyone interested in the history of science, and adds up to a fascinating story of the political dedication and social responsibility of one of the major scientists of the twentieth century.

- Provides the only comprehensive reference on Niels Bohr's life and work including previously unpublished personal documents

- Special limited edition, individually numbered sets for collectors and scientists

- Presents an opportunity to purchase and/or access the content of all of the volumes with a newly added cumulative subject index volume

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Chapters: Danish Nuclear Physicists, Niels Bohr, Aage Bohr, Henrik Svensmark, Ben Roy Mottelson, Christian Gerthsen, Hans Henrik Andersen. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 37. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Niels Henrik David Bohr (Danish pronunciation: ; 7 October 1885 18 November 1962) was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. Bohr mentored and collaborated with many of the top physicists of the century at his institute in Copenhagen. He was part of a team of physicists working on the Manhattan Project. Bohr married Margrethe Nørlund in 1912, and one of their sons, Aage Bohr, grew up to be an important physicist who in 1975 also received the Nobel prize. Bohr has been described as one of the most influential physicists of the 20th century. Bohr was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1885. His father, Christian Bohr, a devout Lutheran, was professor of physiology at the University of Copenhagen (it is his name which is given to the Bohr shift or Bohr effect), while his mother, Ellen Adler Bohr, came from a wealthy Jewish family prominent in Danish banking and parliamentary circles. His brother was Harald Bohr, a mathematician and Olympic footballer who played on the Danish national team. Niels Bohr was a passionate footballer as well, and the two brothers played a number of matches for the Copenhagen-based Akademisk Boldklub, with Niels in goal. There is, however, no truth in the oft-repeated claim that Niels Bohr emulated his brother Harald by playing for the Danish national team. In 1903 Bohr enrolled as an undergraduate at Copenhagen University, initially studying philosophy and mathematics. In 1905, prompted by a gold medal competition sponsored by ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=21210 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Science in Dispute, Volume 3, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 6061 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Explores controversial topics in science and technology by featuring informative essays, both pro and con, on the major theories, ethical questions and commercial applications of science from all disciplines. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Niels Henrik David Bohr (Danish pronunciation: ; 7 October 1885 18 November 1962) was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. Bohr mentored and collaborated with many of the top physicists of the century at his institute in Copenhagen. He was part of a team of physicists working on the Manhattan Project. Bohr married Margrethe Nørlund in 1912, and one of their sons, Aage Bohr, grew up to be an important physicist who in 1975 also received the Nobel prize. Bohr has been described as one of the most influential physicists of the 20th century. Bohr was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1885. His father, Christian Bohr, a devout Lutheran, was professor of physiology at the University of Copenhagen (it is his name which is given to the Bohr shift or Bohr effect), while his mother, Ellen Adler Bohr, came from a wealthy Jewish family prominent in Danish banking and parliamentary circles. His brother was Harald Bohr, a mathematician and Olympic footballer who played on the Danish national team. Niels Bohr was a passionate footballer as well, and the two brothers played a number of matches for the Copenhagen-based Akademisk Boldklub, with Niels in goal. There is, however, no truth in the oft-repeated claim that Niels Bohr emulated his brother Harald by playing for the Danish national team. In 1903 Bohr enrolled as an undergraduate at Copenhagen University, initially studying philosophy and mathematics. In 1905, prompted by a gold medal competition sponsored by the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, he conducted a series of experiments to examine the properties of surface tension, using his father's laboratory in the... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=21210 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Niels Bohr, Søren Sørensen, Joannes Brønsted, Hans Christian Ørsted, Jens Christian Skou, Ejnar Hertzsprung, Hans Peter Jörgen Julius Thomsen, Ole Borch. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Niels Henrik David Bohr (7 octobre 1885 à Copenhague, Danemark - 18 novembre 1962 à Copenhague) est un physicien danois. Il est surtout connu pour son apport à l'édification de la mécanique quantique, pour lequel il a reçu de nombreux honneurs. Il est notamment lauréat du prix Nobel de physique de 1922. Né de Christian Bohr, professeur de médecine et recteur d'université, de confession luthérienne, et Ellen Adler, d'origine juive, Niels Bohr a un frère cadet, Harald Bohr, mathématicien et sportif de haut niveau (il joua dans l'équipe nationale de football et participa aux Jeux olympiques d'été de 1908 tenus à Londres), ainsi qu'une sœur ainée, Jenny. Niels entre à l'université de Copenhague en 1903. Dès 1906, il travaille sur le thème des vibrations d'un jet de liquide et son mémoire obtient une récompense de l'Académie royale danoise des sciences et des lettres. Il obtient un doctorat à l'université de Copenhague en 1911 « Sur la théorie électronique des métaux », émettant ses premières idées sur la structure atomique. Quelques mois avant la soutenance, il se fiance avec Margrethe Norlung. Il obtient une bourse de la fondation Carlsberg et veut dans un premier temps travailler à l'université de Cambridge avec le professeur Joseph John Thomson dont le modèle atomique, sphère de charge positive dans laquelle sont plongées les électrons, ne satisfait pas totalement son élève. Bohr rencontre alors Ernest Rutherford qu'il rejoint à Manchester (Angleterre). Se basant sur les théories de Rutherford, il publie en 1913 un...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Kapitel: Hans Christian Ørsted, Wolfgang Pauli, Aage Niels Bohr, Johannes Bugenhagen, Henning Eichberg, Niels Hemmingsen, Friedrich Münter, Ole Rømer, Jacob Georg Christian Adler, Poul Gernes, Niels Matthias Petersen, Carl Christian Rafn, Carl Rosenberg, Julius Lassen, Peder Kofod Ancher, Peder Hansen Resen, Joachim Dietrich Brandis, Niels Ryberg Finsen, Olaus Wormius, Mogens Glistrup, Henrich Steffens, Holger Bech Nielsen, Hans Mathias Velschow, Georg Christian Oeder, Gerald Brown, Simon Pauli Der Jüngere, Paul Egede, Frederik Sneedorff, Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein, Joachim Israel, Jan Hoem, Martin Hammerich, Ludwig Levin Jacobson, Georg Brandes, Eigil Friis-Christensen, Carsten Hauch, Harald Bohr, Peter Naur, Bengt Strömgren, Johannes Eugenius Bülow Warming, Christian Tscherning, Børge Jessen, Allan Roy Mackintosh, Henrik Dam, Heike Omerzu, Petrus Suawe, Jakob Nikolaus Bording, Bjørn Nørgaard, Andreas Von Barby, Ib Madsen, Hans Christian Gram, Niels Thorkild Rovsing, Evan Thompson, Franz Julius Lütkens, Theodor Reinhold Schütze, Joakim Frederik Schouw, Poul Martin Møller, Jesper Rasmussen Brochmand, Hans Christian Hansen, Peder Aagesen, Erasmus Bartholin, Peter Meyn, Etta Cameron, Frants Buhl, Reinhardt Kristensen, Johann Machabeus, Georg Detharding, Hans Gram, Andreas Krag, Harald Høffding, Niels Erik Nørlund, Johannes Hjelmslev, Thomas Finck, Wolfgang-Ekkehard Scharlipp, Konráð Gíslason, Tilemann Von Hussen, Christian August Brandis, Edvard Holm, Kim Ryholt, Peter Georg Bang, Josef Protschka, Bengt Holbek, Bent Fuglede, Alan Luther, Petrus de Scotia, Christian Christiansen, Tommy Bonnesen, Torben Agersnap, Caspar Bartholin Der Ältere, Ole Wanscher, Ole Fanger, Niels Janniksen Bjerrum, Peder Horrebow, Julius Thomsen, Christian Bohr, Christian Ludwig Scheidt, Svante Elis Strömgren, Kirsten Hastrup, Frederik Ludvig Bang Von Zeuthen, William Thalbitzer. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Wolfgang Ernst Pauli (April ...http://booksllc.net/?l=de ... Read more

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