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Considered by many the world's leading atomic physicist, Nobel Prize winner Nils Bohr of Denmark, will speak to a select audience of science concentrators this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in the lecture hall of the Mallinkrodt Chemical Laboratory. His subject will be the "Present State of the Elementary Theory of Particles...
...more the physicists learn, the less they are sure of. Last week a glittering tribe of top-rank physicists met at Princeton as part of the University's bicentennial celebration. Conference high points: addresses by Nobel Prizewinners Paul A. M. Dirac, of Britain, and Denmark's Niels Bohr, both of whom stressed the scientist's extraordinary difficulty in describing the simplest things...
...Niels Bohr, too, was unsure. Bohr's model of the atom (nucleus and orbit electrons) won him a Nobel Prize in 1922. He escaped from Nazi-ruled Copenhagen in 1943, and brought his precious knowledge to U.S. atom-bomb builders, with whom he worked in thin incognito as "Mr. Nicholas Baker...
...Danish accent, Bohr spoke last week on "The Observation Problem in Atomic Physics." It is, it seems, a tough one for the meticulous physicist. If you know where an electron is, you cannot measure its velocity; if you know its velocity, you cannot know where it is. There is also the difficulty of stopping time in its tracks while making an observation. It should be done, but it's impossible...
Albert Einstein did not work directly on the atom bomb. When the serpent of necessity hissed, the men and the woman who bit into the apple of scientific good & evil bore different names: Dr. Arthur Holly Compton, Dr. Enrico Fermi, Dr. Leo Szilard, Dr. H. C. Urey, Dr. Niels Bohr, Dr. J. R. Oppenheimer, et al. The woman was Dr. Lise Meitner, a German refugee...