What role did Niels Bohr play in WWII?

Bohr lived in Copenhagen, Denmark, where he founded the Institute for Theoretical Physics in 1921 (now known as the Niels Bohr Institute). For many years he had been one of the most respected physicists in the world, and he had won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1922 for his work on the structure of the atom (Abraham Pais, Niels Bohr's Times, in Physics, Philosophy, and Polity, pg. 171, 214-215). read more

From his Institute of Physics attached to the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, Niels Bohr tried to assist many colleagues in finding new lives and employment. Werner Heisenberg was not an anti-Semitic; indeed, he even tried to hire a Jewish colleague into an open position at his University of Leipzig in the 1930s. read more