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Re: "Thinking"
Posted By: Dave, on host 209.244.1.161
Date: Wednesday, May 10, 2000, at 10:30:50
In Reply To: "Thinking" posted by Issachar on Tuesday, May 9, 2000, at 09:08:25:

> The student was Niels Bohr (1885-1962), Danish
>Physicist, Nobel-Prize winner in 1922, best known
>for proposing the first 'model' of the atom with
>protons & neutrons, and various energy states of
>the surrounding electrons--the familiar icon of
>the small nucleus circled by three elliptical
>orbits ... but more significantly, an innovator
> in Quantum Theory.


This is one of my favorite urban legends. It's the first time I've seen it attributed thusly, though. Neato!

-- Dave


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