Niels Bohr and Hilde Levi
| Number | B218 |
| Type | Billeder |
| Description | Niels Bohr and Hilde Levi at he University of Copenhagen Institute for Theoretical Physics. (UITF - Universitetets Institut for Teoretisk Fysik). |
| Remarks | Hilde Levi (1909 - 2003) obtained a doctorate degree in physics and chemistry at the University of Berlin in 1934. In the same year she fled Nazi persecution Coming to the Institute in Copenhagen, where she was an assistant to both James Franck and George Hevesy.
With the German occupation of Denmark in April 1940 she took up work at the Carlsberg Laboratory. Along with thousands of other Danish Jews she fled to Sweden in late September 1943. After the war she returned to Denmark and worked at the Zoophysiological Laboratory until her retirement in 1979, during which time she learnt to apply carbon-14 in determining the age of substances containing carbon. The Danish National Museum in Copenhagen soon recognized her expertise in this area and supported her development of an apparatus for age determination based on carbon-14 dating - the first such device in Europe. The apparatus was first used in 1951 and made possible the determination of the exact age of the Grauballe Man, a well-preserved corpse which had been immersed in a peat bog for what was shown to be more than two thousand years. From 1952 to 1970 she was a consultant to the Danish National Board of Health. After her retirement in 1979 Hilde Levi became involved in history of science, developing a close relationship with the Niels Bohr Archive. From 1965, the University of Copenhagen Institute for Theoretical Physics. (UITF - Universitetets Institut for Teoretisk Fysik) was renamed the Niels Bohr Institute (NBI). OLDb050 |
| Year | 1936 |
| Note on the dating | The picture is taken during the 1936 Copenhagen Conference. |
| Photographer | Ukendt |
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| Archive | Niels Bohr Archive |
