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Margrethe Nørlund Bohr (7 March 1890 – 21 December 1984) was the Danish wife of and collaborator, editor and transcriber for physicist Niels Bohr who received the Nobel Prize. She also influenced her son, Nobel Prize winner Aage Bohr.
Directed by Michael Blakemore, it starred Philip Bosco (Niels Bohr), Michael Cumpsty (Werner Heisenberg), and Blair Brown (Margrethe Bohr). It won the Tony Award for Best Play, Best Featured Actress in a Play, Blair Brown, and Best Direction of a Play (Michael Blakemore).
The Bohr family is a Danish family of scientists, scholars and amateur sportsmen. The most famous members are Niels Bohr , physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922, Aage Bohr , son of Niels, also a physicist and in 1975 also received the Nobel Prize and Harald Bohr , mathematician and brother of Niels.
The wife and complement of Niels Bohr, Margrethe Norlund Bohr was an integral part of his life and his work. In Act I of Copenhagen, Bohr says that he is "a mathematically curious entity: not one but half of two." He paradoxically half of his marriage, and half of his friendship and collaboration with Heisenberg.
Crafting Quantum Theory: Margrethe Bohr and the Labor of Theoretical Physics. By Lady Science March 15, 2018. By Megan Shields Formato. While the personal correspondence and public lectures of the Nobel Prize winning theoretical physicist, Niels Bohr, often struck readers and listeners as spontaneous or unrehearsed, a painstaking writing ...
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Jan 27, 2014 · Niels’ mother, Ellen (Adler) Bohr, came from a prominent Danish-Jewish banking family, and it is well known that Niels and Margrethe helped many Jewish scientists escape German authorities. Ultimately, they, too, escaped to the United States via Sweden.
Writing the Atom: Niels and Margrethe Bohr and the Construction of Quantum Theory. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. This dissertation examines the material culture of quantum theoretical work from 1911 to 1927.
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