OT: Why Should Someone Be A Scientist

CTMike

@JohnInCarolina @nolaegghead

Ozzie_Isaac

CTMike said:

@JohnInCarolina @nolaegghead

Thus ended Niels Bohr's scientific accomplishments.

nolaegghead

As a chemist, he is my hero.  The Bohr model of the atom revolutionized modern chemistry.

JohnInCarolina

Bohr was a mensch.

caliking

JohnInCarolina said:

Bohr was a mensch.

He sure was.

His institute was apparently a haven for Jewish scientists. He hid the Nobel Prize gold medals of two Jewish awardees in his lab. Dissolved in acid. The Nazis never found them. The gold was later precipitated out of the solution, and the Nobel Institute recast the medals. 

CTMike

caliking said:

JohnInCarolina said:

Bohr was a mensch.

He sure was.

His institute was apparently a haven for Jewish scientists. He hid the Nobel Prize gold medals of two Jewish awardees in his lab. Dissolved in acid. The Nazis never found them. The gold was later precipitated out of the solution, and the Nobel Institute recast the medals. 

I’ve never heard that story about Bohr - very cool thing for him and the Nobel Institute to do.