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Dr. Niels Bohr - Born: October 7, 1885 - Died: November 18, 1962
Niels Bohr is famously known for receiving the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on mathematically modeling the atom. He proposed that electrons travel in quantized orbits around a nucleus. He made this proposal in 1913 with Ernest Rutherford in Manchester, UK. https://youtu.be/GhAn8xZQ-d8 Source: Faye, Jan. “Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University, 24 July 2014, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-copenhagen/#Com. -
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Dr. Niels Bohr - Born: October 7, 1885 - Died: November 18, 1962
Between 1913 and 1925, Bohr with other physicists attempted to improve the Bohr Model and better understand the phenomena of particles at the quantum level. The research during this period led to the concept of wave/particle duality. https://youtu.be/fwXQjRBLwsQ Source:
Faye, Jan. “Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University, 24 July 2014, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-copenhagen/#Com. -
Dr. Niels Bohr - Born: October 7, 1885 - Died: November 18, 1962 - Complimentarity: Philosophy of Physics Concept
At the Como Physics Conference in 1927, Bohr introduced his idea of "complimentarity" in response to the observed duality of particles. The observer must decide how to observe the phenomenon and forgo any other observations. https://youtu.be/EUdBxngtw1o Source:
Loeffler, John. “Niels Bohr's Quantum Mechanics and Philosophy of Physics.” Interesting Engineering, Interesting Engineering, 1 Jan. 2019, https://interestingengineering.com/niels-bohrs-quantum-mechanics-and-philosophy-of-physics. -
Dr. Niels Bohr - Born: October 7, 1885 - Died: November 18, 1962 - Correspondence Rule
Bohr's "Correspondence Rule" was a concept that opposed Kuhn and Feyerabend's thoughts on "incommensurability." Classical physics wasn't incommensurable to quantum physics, just not always applicable. https://youtu.be/-FArSxwtKRA Source:
Faye, Jan. “Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University, 24 July 2014, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-copenhagen/#Com. -
Dr. Niels Bohr - Born: October 7, 1885 - Died: November 18, 1962 - Complimentarity and Beyond
The idea of complimentarity and the Correspondence Rule led to other thoughts on duality, such as the thought experiment of Schrodinger's Cat, where a cat in a box with a timed release poison could be thought of both alive and dead without observation. https://youtu.be/UjaAxUO6-Uw Source:
Loeffler, John. “Niels Bohr's Quantum Mechanics and Philosophy of Physics.” Interesting Engineering, 1 Jan. 2019, https://interestingengineering.com/niels-bohrs-quantum-mechanics-and-philosophy-of-physics.
