Niels Bohr (1885–1962) was a Danish physicist who created the first
widely accepted model of atomic structure. In three articles published
in 1913, he proposed the Bohr model of the atom. Faced with the opposing
particle and wave interpretations of atomic phenomena in the new quantum
mechanics, he proposed the complementarity principle of using both
interpretations to fully explain the results. Bohr received the Nobel
Prize in Physics in 1922. He founded the Institute of Theoretical
Physics in Copenhagen, now known as the Niels Bohr Institute. He
correctly predicted the properties of an undiscovered element, hafnium.
Later, the element bohrium was named after him. During the 1930s, Bohr
helped refugees from Nazism and in September 1943 fled to Britain to
avoid arrest by the Germans. There he joined the Tube Alloys nuclear
weapons project, and later the Manhattan Project. After the war, he was
involved with the establishment of CERN.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Bohr>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1657:
Citizens of New Netherland presented the Flushing Remonstrance
to Peter Stuyvesant, the director general of the colonial province,
requesting an exemption to his ban on Quaker worship.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flushing_Remonstrance>
1922:
The Imperial Japanese Navy commissioned Hōshō, the world's
first purpose-built aircraft carrier.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_aircraft_carrier_H%C5%8Dsh%C5%8D>
2002:
The human-cloning company Clonaid claimed to have performed the
first reproductive cloning of a human, but provided no evidence for the
claim.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clonaid>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
subglacial:
1. Formed or occurring beneath a glacier or other body of ice.
2. (hyperbolic, informal) Moving at a rate allegedly slower than a
glacier; extremely slow.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/subglacial>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I don't say "Ho-ho-ho", but I do say "Oh-oh-oh" when I look
out
of the window, where I can see a night, then the evening, and then the
night again. The 20 days of my transportation were pretty exhausting,
but I'm still in a good mood, as befits a Santa Claus. … I was
transported with such precaution and on such a strange route … I
didn't expect anyone to find me here before mid-January. That's why I
was very surprised when the cell door was opened yesterday with the
words: "A lawyer is here to see you". He told me that you had lost me,
and some of you were even worried. Thanks very much for your support!
--Alexei Navalny
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alexei_Navalny>