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Old February 4th, 2004 #1
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Old February 11th, 2004 #2
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Default Niels Bohr was a Jew, definitely not White

Niels Bohr was the winner of the 1922 Nobel Prize for his work on the structure of the atom. Bohr solved the problem of uniting the varying theories of the atom put forth by Einstein, Planck, and Ernest Rutherford. He did important later work in quantum mechanics. Bohr's father was a famous (non-Jewish) Danish physician. His mother was Jewish and she was a member of one of the most prominent Jewish families in Denmark. Like most Danish Jews, Bohr was taken by the Danish Resistance by fishing boat to Sweden in 1943. He came to the United States secretly in 1944 and worked on the Manhattan Project under a false name. After the War, Bohr founded the "Atoms for Peace" program. Bohr, who was one the giants of 20thc. physics, was an important "go-between" in the hasty plan to evacuate Jews from Denmark to Sweden days before the Germans planned to round up the whole community. He had been warned of plans to arrest him days before the evacuation. His great prestige and Nobel Prize opened doors to Swedish officials and helped secure their cooperation. Moreover, it was Bohr, alerted by Lise Meitner, who got word to Einstein about the Germans progress in atomic physics and helped put into motion the decision to pursue the Allied atomic program. We will note that Bohr's brother, Harald, was an Olympic silver medal winner and a brilliant mathematician. Harald, too, sucessfully escaped. Finally, it should be said that even non-scientists are impressed when they read biographies of Niels Bohr. Not only was he a great scientist, he was a great scientific colleague and he was unfailingly generous to others during the good times and during the bad times.
 
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