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  • Observe as the hard-partying genius boldly calls Niels Bohr by his given name, instead of by his code handle "Nicholas Baker."

    The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - The Washington Post Monica Hesse 2011

  • Oppenheimer and included many other prominent scientists such as Niels Bohr; a research team led by Enrico Fermi achieved the first man-made nuclear chain reaction in 1942, and in 1945 the world's first nuclear explosion was detonated at Trinty site; MED maintained control over U.S. weapons production until the formation of the Atomic Energy Commission in January, 1947

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  • It was there that Loomis had built a "state-of-the-art laboratory" that was visited, at various times, by Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Enrico Fermi and Albert Einstein.

    Allied in the Quest for Radar Henry Petroski 2011

  • The Danish Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr, who nailed a horseshoe above his office door for good luck, was asked by a colleague, "You don't really believe in this stuff, do you?"

    Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 3 Richard Bangs 2011

  • My work has focused on the founders of modern physics—Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Erwin Schrödinger, and so on.

    The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011

  • The Danish Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr, who nailed a horseshoe above his office door for good luck, was asked by a colleague, "You don't really believe in this stuff, do you?"

    Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 3 Richard Bangs 2011

  • The Danish Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr, who nailed a horseshoe above his office door for good luck, was asked by a colleague, "You don't really believe in this stuff, do you?"

    Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 3 Richard Bangs 2011

  • Delbrück and Gamow first met in 1931, when they were both at Niels Bohr's institute in Copenhagen.

    The Inelegant Universe Jeremy Bernstein 2011

  • Reading Mr. Mumma's statement, I thought immediately of physicist Niels Bohr, a Nobel laureate, who said, "Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it."

    Absolute Certainty Is Not Scientific Daniel B. Botkin 2011

  • The Danish Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr, who nailed a horseshoe above his office door for good luck, was asked by a colleague, "You don't really believe in this stuff, do you?"

    Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 3 Richard Bangs 2011

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