How did Niels Bohr help German refugees during WWII?

After Hitler assumed the Chancellorship in January 1933, the Nazis soon banned all Jews from working for the German state or in professional capacities such as university professors. This meant that better than a hundred German physicists of Jewish descent, including Einstein, were soon displaced. read more

After Hitler assumed the Chancellorship in January 1933, the Nazis soon banned all Jews from working for the German state or in professional capacities such as university professors. read more

During World War II, Niels Bohr fled Copenhagen to escape Nazis prosecution under Hitler. He traveled to Los Alamos, New Mexico to work as a consultant for the Manhattan Project. After the war, he returned to Denmark. read more

German physicists decided to have Heisenberg travel to Copenhagen in September 1941 to talk in secret with Niels Bohr. Heisenberg had hoped that he could obtain Bohr’s help in reaching an international agreement among physicists not to build an atomic bomb during the war. read more