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Haven of hafnium

November 29th, 2007 · No Comments




Niels Bohr

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Hafnium was discovered here at the Niels Bohr Institute, and christened after the Latin name for Copenhagen. Its Hungarian discoverer was just one among many young physicists who flocked to Denmark from all over the world in response to the invitation of Niels Bohr…

…who is seen here in a handsome portrait sculpture, on display in the Niels Bohr Archive. It was a young Nobel Laureate who made this sculpture–not a physicist, but a laureate in literature (Johannes Vilhelm Jensen).

My point, and I do have one, is that Niels Bohr created in Copenhagen a center of very wide-ranging inspiration.

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