Niels Bohr

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He was awarded the Nobel Prize, two interesting things related to one of the winners. After receiving the Nobel Prize,Niels Bohr received another, probably the most interesting award ever.

Niels Bohr is a Danish physicist who received the Nobel Prize in 1922 for his research on the structure of atoms.

On that occasion, the Carlsberg brewery gave him a house where beer from the brewery next door came through pipes. An unlimited amount of cold, draft beer was available to Bora at all times. By the way, Niels Bohr was also the goalkeeper of a well-known Danish club, his brother was a member of the Danish national team at the Olympic Games. In addition, it is interesting that with his lucidity, together with his colleague, he managed to save two Nobel Prizes from destruction by the Nazis. When the Nazis invaded Denmark in April 1940, scientists at the Niels Bohr Institute for Theoretical Physics worried about what would happen to the 1914 and 1925 Nobel Gold Medals in Physics, which were awarded to two German laureates, Max von Laue and James. Frank - left in custody there.

"Sending gold abroad in Hitler's Reich was a crime that could have lost its head. If the occupying forces had discovered that Laue's name was engraved on the medal, it would have had very severe consequences for him," wrote Hungarian chemist Gersh de Heves in 1962. worked at the Institute.

After Niels Bohr convinced him not to bury the medals, because what is buried can be dug up, De Heves decided to dissolve two 23-carat gold medals in royal water - a mixture of three parts concentrated hydrochloric acid and one part concentrated nitric acid. acids, in which gold, platinum and palladium are dissolved.

Stored high on the shelf of his laboratory, the Nazis did not notice the orange liquid. At the end of the war, De Heves - who himself received the Nobel Prize in 1943 - turned the liquid into a precipitate and gave it to the Nobel Committee in 1952 so that it could be poured into two medals, which were then "returned" to the winners.

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Niels Henrik David Bohr (Danish: [ˈne̝ls ˈpoɐ̯ˀ]; 7 October 1885 – 18 November 1962) was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. Bohr was also a philosopher and a promoter of scientific research.


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Heves - who himself received the Nobel Prize in 1943 - turned the liquid into a precipitate and gave it to the Nobel Committee in 1952 so that it could be poured into two

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Thanks for stopping by here and thanks for the update

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A very interesting story just keep it up!

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Thank you

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Along with those great scientists, there is always a humane and great story.

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Yes 😊

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I haven't heard of him, very interesting story. Greeting

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Thank you

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