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History of the institute
The establishment of an institute
1921-01-01
During the first forty years (1921-1962), the history of the Institute for theoretical Physics (renamed the Niels Bohr Institute in 1965) can hardly be distinguished from a biography of Niels Bohr...
Hafnium
1922-01-01
In the parlance of physics at the time, as well as in Bohr's mind, the word ‘theoretical' in the institute's name did not mean that it was removed from experimental research. Quite on the contrary...
The Copenhagen Interpretation
1925-01-01
What has later been termed the Copenhagen Interpretation constituted the basis for the famous discussions between Bohr and Albert Einstein at the 1927 and 1930 Solvay conferences...
The Copenhagen conferences
1929-01-01
The characteristic informal discussions between Bohr and his (most often) younger colleagues was institutionalised in 1929 with the first of the annual physics conferences at the institute...
Nuclear physics and biology
1930-01-01
In the first half of the 1930s interest in theoretical physics gradually turned from the outer part of the atom to its centre, the nucleus. This required large-scale apparatus vastly different from the...
The postwar period
1953-01-01
After the war, the Niels Bohr Institute saw an enormous expansion. Postwar nuclear physics at the institute reached a high point in 1953 when Niels Bohr's son, Aage Bohr, together with the...