Niels Bohr Dies: Father of Quantum Theory Passes
Niels Bohr escaped Nazi-occupied Denmark in October 1943 in the cargo hold of a small fishing boat, then flew to Britain in an unpressurized aircraft that nearly killed him. He advised the Manhattan Project under the alias Nicholas Baker. He'd already won the Nobel Prize in 1922 for explaining how electrons arrange themselves around an atom's nucleus. He spent the rest of his life trying to prevent the weapon his physics had made possible.
November 18, 1962
64 years ago
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