Remarks of Aage Bohr at Niels Bohr Memorial Session

OCT 01, 1963

The four speakers at the Niels Bohr Memorial Session of the American Physical Society’s spring meeting in Washington, John A. Wheeler, Léon Rosenfeld, J. Rud Nielsen, and Felix Bloch, are shown with Aage Bohr, director of the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen (whose remarks at the session honoring his father’s memory are reproduced below), and with the president of the Society, John H. Williams of the University of Minnesota, who was chairman of the session.

DOI: 10.1063/1.3050560

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I would like to express my gratitude to the American Physical Society and also to the Bell Telephone Laboratories for inviting me to come over to this meeting and giving me the opportunity to be present at this session tonight. I need not say how closely connected my father felt to the community of physicists in this country. He came to the United States for the first time forty years ago and returned with increasing frequency as the activities here in the field of atomic and nuclear physics underwent such a rapid and great expansion. Both he and my mother, who often came with him, felt deeply attached to this country where they found so many close friends.

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