Niels Bohr motorcycling with his wife, Margrethe, in around 1930 (Image: Uhlenbeck Collection/American Institute Of Physics/Science Photo Library) Art’s effect on science isn’t always clear, ...

If thinking about the quantum theory doesn’t make you schwindlig (dizzy), then you haven’t understood it, Niels Bohr, its great patriarch, famously (well, famously among physicists) remarked. Quantum ...

Niels Bohr’s towering role in the history of physics can be difficult to appreciate. Robert P Crease explains why Man of integrity In his book Niels Bohr’s Times, the physicist Abraham Pais captures a ...

Danish physicist and Nobel Prize winner Niels Bohr lived a busy life: When he wasn’t re-imagining atomic structure and quantum mechanics, he was saving over 7,000 Danish Jews from Nazi persecution. In ...

What is it that leads rather gifted children to become Einstein, Bohr, Rutherford or Heisenberg W , those great physicists of the 20th century? Biographies often reveal forks in the road, moments of ...