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bohr

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Editorial note

You must have forgotten that Niels Bohr was an olympic athlete as well as a nobel prize winner in physics.

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Quick take

A surname.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

A surname.

noun

(physical chemistry, quantum mechanics) Synonym of Bohr radius.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for bohr.

noun

A surname.

noun

(physical chemistry, quantum mechanics) Synonym of Bohr radius.

Example sentences

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You must have forgotten that Niels Bohr was an olympic athlete as well as a nobel prize winner in physics.

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From the Bohr formula the Rydberg energy of the muonic hydrogen would be some 200 times larger than regular hydrogen.

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Even after the German occupation of Denmark in 1940, Bohr kept his job.

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Unless things have changed considerably when learning about atomic theory you get taught about Thompson, Rutherford and Bohr before you get to Schrodinger.

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The article says it's a very slow task, yet makes it seem as if Niels Bohr was able to do it in minutes (or a little longer).

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Showing the inequalities to be violated (incorrect by experiment) was originally controversial because Einstein and Bohr had differing notions of what the quantum mechnical theory implied about reality.

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The Bohr model of the atom isn't completely wrong, and it's still useful in chemistry, it's just that as physicists have learned more they've found details where it's not completely right either.

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In Chemistry, we're all taught the Bohr model.

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You probably know the joke (from popstar Zizek): When a friend of Niels Bohr (quantum theory) goes to his house in the country side he's bewildered by a horse shoe hanging on the great scientific genius's door.

Quote examples

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The irony that anti-Semites relegated Jewish physicists like Bohr to the "unappealing" theoretical roles [...] What gave you that impression?

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E.g., "...physicist Niels Bohr has just hours, maybe minutes, to make two Nobel Prize medals disappear."

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And coming up later on the 11:00 news: Heisenberg admits, "I never could have done it without Bohr."

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PS: People might also like "Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge"[0] by Niels Bohr.

Proper noun examples

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Bohr's view, like Einstein's later view, is more in line with modern thinking.

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Dirac probably kept mostly quiet about his doubts because Bohr, the Godfather of QM, thought QM was the Cat's Meow, which Schrodinger didn't.

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Bohr would likely have made a big deal over this, because there is no actual measurement on any single system that corresponds to the retrodicted inference, and that matters a great deal in Bohr's quantum ontology.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use bohr in a sentence?

You must have forgotten that Niels Bohr was an olympic athlete as well as a nobel prize winner in physics.

What does bohr mean?

A surname.

What part of speech is bohr?

bohr is commonly used as noun.