The auction was for Aage Niels Bohr's 1975 honor, not his father Niels Bohr's 1922 honor.
But instead of being patient, Bohr forced the issue and declared all problems solved.
Suppose, as a thought experiment, that he had looked like a Max Planck or a Niels Bohr.
The Bohr model is pretty good if you just want to simulate crude biological and chemical processes.
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Niels Bohr is one of the greatest scientists who ever lived and a personal hero of mine.
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So was free beer the reason why Bohr was able to make great strides in developing quantum mechanics?
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Twice in Copenhagen, surrounded by an audience of the world's great physicists, Bohr argued Albert Einstein off the stage.
This theoretical underpinning paved the way for Niels Bohr, born in Denmark, and Enrico Fermi to make their breakthrough.
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It had a direct pipeline to the brewery so that Bohr had free beer on tap whenever he wanted.
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Indeed, Bohr had a series of famous debates with Albert Einstein, in which Einstein was very reluctant to accept quantum mechanics.
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Niels Bohr, a godfather of quantum mechanics, became embroiled in arguments with Einstein over the theory's interpretation, which Bohr found upsetting.
Einstein had objected to Werner Heisenberg's uncertainty principle and, in general, to the statistics-based, ultimately random foundation of life Bohr was promoting.
Carver thinks the great Bohr put physics on a wrong path in the 1920s, after its most fruitful 30-year period in history.
Feynman could have been as great as Einstein, Carver believes, but he operated in the background radiation of Bohr, the great intimidator.
The supposed conflicts of Bohr's day were a result of limited instrumentation.
But what strikes Prof Heilbron about the letters to Margrethe, whom Bohr married the following year, is the intellectual character of their exchanges.
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If Carver is trying to rescue physics from Niels Bohr, he's working as hard to change how the computer industry thinks about intelligence.
Bohr died in 1962, but "he set a style of 'proof by intimidation' in physics that has lasted up to the present, " says Carver.
"The very first wafers that came out of the fab produced chips that could be booted in systems, " says Intel senior fellow Mark Bohr.
He thinks Bohr perpetrated one of those monstrous intellectual frauds that every now and then slip through the asylum gates and confuse people for decades.
It was at that Washington conference in 1939 that Bohr and Fermi first publicly addressed the idea that neutrons were emitted when uranium fission takes place.
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Turning his intellectual searchlight on his own field, Mr Deutsch rails against the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics developed by Niels Bohr and others during the 1920s.
"It's hard to make predictions especially about the future, " is one of those oft-quoted quotations, variously ascribed to physicist Niels Bohr, Danish artist Robert Storm Petersen, Sam Goldwyn, and baseball-playing philosopher Yogi Berra.
During the next decade, Bohr worked with physics to lay the foundation of the principles of quantum mechanics, and it was in 1927 that he developed the concept of complementarity, a key principle in quantum mechanics.
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In a new paper published last week in Physical Review Letters, researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute have published a method that allows for much more stable quantum entanglement, which may help pave the way for better quantum communication and quantum computing.
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