Nearly a decade before, Niels Bohr's colleague Albert Einstein had co-authored a paper contending that the emerging theory of quantum mechanics was incomplete. Advertisement ...

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Nearly a decade before, Niels Bohr's colleague Albert Einstein had co-authored a paper contending that the emerging theory of quantum mechanics was incomplete. Einstein and Bohr had been tossing ...

Today the letter is there, part of the Bohr political correspondence file which his family has decided not to release to the public until 2012, marking 50 years since Niels Bohr’s death.

OPINION: You have to hand it to the likes of Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg and Erwin Schrödinger, scientists who were instrumental in developing the field of quantum mechanics about 100 years ago.

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