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What is the "Copenhagen spirit"?
? Danish physicist niels henrik david bohr was born at the University of Copenhagen. I took part in the weekly family-style academic salon for the professor's father since I was a child, and developed an "anti-bone". When he was in primary school at the age of seven, he dared to publicly point out the mistakes of textbooks and teachers. After graduating from doctor's degree, he went to England for further study. The first time I met my tutor, he brought a paper criticizing the tutor and explained it in extremely unskilled English. As a result, he never got a good look from others. Fortunately, he later met Rutherford at a dinner party, and then went to Manchester with Rutherford, and his life changed forever.

When Bohr was employed by the University of Copenhagen at the age of 27, became a professor at the age of 365,438+0, was elected as an academician of Danish Academy of Sciences at the age of 32, and won the Nobel Prize in Physics at the age of 37, he transformed his "free thinking and discussion, high intellectual activity, happy and bold scientific adventure spirit" into the famous "Copenhagen spirit". 192 1 year, he declined Rutherford's high-paying invitation to establish a modern physics research center in Manchester, founded the Institute of Theoretical Physics of the University of Copenhagen, and led this world-class science center for 40 years because he was "determined to help his country develop its own physics research".

Around Bohr, a large number of young scholars with distinctive personalities and brilliant talents were United, such as Pauli, who is famous for his vitriol, Landau, who tells jokes with unknown addresses, and Kalmov, who draws cartoons and writes doggerel as his main business and takes physical research as his sideline. Many of them later won the Nobel Prize. The Copenhagen School, which was formed in this small country of Denmark, soon became the academic backbone of quantum mechanics and the object of worship in physics circles all over the world.

Bohr claimed to be "never afraid to show his stupidity in front of others". Bohr's popularity reached the same level as Einstein's. You don't need an address to write or visit Bohr. When you arrive in Copenhagen, the postman or driver naturally knows his residence. 1922 was invited to give lectures in Germany, and even formed the "Bohr Festival".