Niels Bohr Biography

Niels Bohr, Physicist
Occup.Physicist
FromDenmark
BornOctober 7, 1885
DiedNovember 18, 1962
Aged77 years
He was a Danish physicist that contributed vital to the understanding of atomic framework as well as the advancement of quantum technicians. Niels Bohr won the Nobel Reward in Physics in 1922.

Bohr was born upon 7 October 1885 in Copenhagen. His parents were Christian Bohr and also Ellen Adler. He passed away the exact same place on 18 november 1962.

In his youth he played football for the Danish national group and also was a passionate seafarer. His brother, Harald Bohr was a mathematician and also footballer, he won silver for Denmark during the Summer Olympics 1908.

Bohr was enlightened at the University of Copenhagen in 1911, after which he went to Manchester in England and examined with Ernest Rutherford. In 1913 he released a summary of the atom's structure. This summary was later referred to as the Bohr version.

Bohr was in 1916 selected professor at Copenhagen University and also chair of the newly established Institute for Theoretical physicist. He ate dinner with the royal household of Norway on the 8th april 1940, prior to the intrusion of Norway as well as Denmark. He liked to ski in the hills, especially in Norway. He and Werner Heisenberg collaborated with the Copenhagen interpretation. It explains why some cells can be in two locations at the exact same time.

Our collection contains 22 quotes who is written / told by Niels, under the main topic Science.

Related authors: Max Born (Mathematician), Ernest Rutherford (Psychologist), Werner Heisenberg (Physicist)

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22 Famous quotes by Niels Bohr

Small: No, no, youre not thinking youre just being logical
"No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical"
Small: How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress
"How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress"
Small: Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
"Einstein, stop telling God what to do!"
Small: An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field
"An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field"
Small: An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field
"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field"
Small: A physicist is just an atoms way of looking at itself
"A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself"
Small: Your theory is crazy, but its not crazy enough to be true
"Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true"
Small: When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concern
"When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images"
Small: Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real
"Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real"
Small: Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question
"Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question"
Small: Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking i
"Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it"
Small: Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think
"Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think"
Small: It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we sa
"It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature"
Small: If quantum mechanics hasnt profoundly shocked you, you havent understood it yet
"If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet"
Small: If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not un
"If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them"
Small: We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enoug
"We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough"
Small: There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The op
"There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true"
Small: There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them
"There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them"
Small: The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another pr
"The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth"
Small: The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon o
"The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness"
Small: Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponentia
"Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true"
Small: Prediction is very difficult, especially if its about the future
"Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future"