Niels Bohr
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Niels Henrik David Bohr was a Danish theoretical physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in
Bohr in 1922
Niels Bohr with his mother, 1902
Bohr as a young man, c. 1910.
The Niels Bohr Institute, part of the University of Copenhagen.
Werner Heisenberg
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Werner Karl Heisenberg was a German theoretical physicist, one of the main pioneers of the theory of quantum mechanics and a principal scientist in the German nuclear program during World War II.
Niels Bohr
…Niels Bohr Institute, which opened in 1920. Bohr mentored and collaborated with physicists including Hans Kramers, Oskar Klein, George de Hevesy, and Werner Heisenberg. He predicted the properties of a new zirconium-like element, which was named hafnium, after the Latin name for Copenhagen, where it was discovered…
Heisenberg in 1933
Heisenberg in 1924
Elisabeth Heisenberg (left) conversing with Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg, 1937
Replica of the German experimental nuclear reactor captured and dismantled at Haigerloch