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- Birth nameNiels Henrik David Bohr
- Niels Bohr was born on October 7, 1885 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was married to Margrethe Norlund. He died on November 18, 1962 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- SpouseMargrethe Norlund(August 1, 1912 - November 18, 1962) (his death, 6 children)
- He and fellow physicist Werner Heisenberg are characters in Copenhagen (2002), Howard Davies' adaptation of Michael Frayn's award-winning stage play.
- Won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922 "for his services in the investigation of the structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from them".
- Mentioned in One World or None (1946).
- It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about Nature.
- If anybody says he can think about quantum problems without getting giddy, that only show he has not understood the first thing about them.
- An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
- Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
- The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
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