Werner Heisenberg, Niels Bohr, Christian Bohr, Margrethe Bohr, Erik Bohr Hans Bohr and Aage Bohr
| Nummer | B926 |
| Type | Billeder |
| Beskrivelse | Werner Heisenberg, Niels Bohr, Christian Bohr, Margrethe Bohr, Erik Bohr Hans Bohr and Aage Bohr at UITF/NBI |
| Bemærkning | Werner Karl Heisenberg (1901 - 1976) was a German physicist and philosopher who discovered (1925) a way
to formulate quantum mechanics in terms of matrices. For that discovery, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for 1932. In 1927 he published his uncertainty principle, upon which he built his philosophy and for which he is best known. In 1923 he took his Ph.D. at the University of Munich and then became Assistant to Max Born at the University of Göttingen. In 1926 he was appointed Lecturer in Theoretical Physics at the University of Copenhagen under Niels Bohr and in 1927 he was appointed Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Leipzig. In 1941 he was appointed Professor of Physics at the University of Berlin and Director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics there. He led the “Uranverein” or “Uranium Club” working on the German atomic bomb project. At the end of the Second World War he, and other German physicists, were taken prisoner by American troops and sent to England, but in 1946 he returned to Germany and reorganized, with his colleagues, the Institute for Physics at Göttingen. This Institute was, in 1948, renamed the Max Planck Institute for Physics. During 1955 Heisenberg was occupied with preparations for the removal of the Max Planck Institute for Physics to Munich. Still Director of this Institute, he went with it to Munich and in 1958 he was appointed Professor of Physics at the University of Munich. Christian Bohr (1916 – 1934) was the eldest son of Niels Bohr. He died in a sailing accident at the age of 18. Erik Bohr (1920 -1990) was a Danish engineer. He was the third son of Niels and Margrethe Bohr. He was director of A/S Kryolitselskabet Øresund 1956-71. He was a member of Denmarks industrial delegation to the Danish embassy in London from 1972. Hans Henrik Bohr (1918 - 2010) was the second son of Niels Bohr. Hans qualified as a doctor in Sweden whilst in exile in Sweden in 1944. He specialised in surgery and orthopaedics becoming Head Physician at Refsnæs hospital and Rigshospitalet. Aage Bohr (1922 – 2009) was the fourth son of Margrethe and Niels Bohr. His physics studies were abruptly interrupted in 1943 when the family had to flee from the German-occupied Denmark. He followed his father to England and the United States, where he worked as his father's right hand, not only in physics, but also to a great degree in promoting the necessity of an 'open world' in the light of the existence of the atomic bomb. Back in Denmark he completed his physics studies and in 1950 he began a lifelong collaboration in Copenhagen with Ben Mottelson and the two shared the Nobel Prize for physics in 1975 with the American James Rainwater for their revolutionising work with nuclear structure. In 1956 he became professor in physics and after his father´s death in 1962 he was director of the institute and held this position until 1970. In this period, he continued the tradition of the institute as an international centre for theoretical physics. From 1975 to 1981 he was the director of the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (Nordita), which was established in 1957 in association with the Niels Bohr Institute. |
| Årstal | 1924 |
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