Bohr, Niels
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Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute have significantly increased how quickly changes in delicate quantum states can be detected inside a qubit.
From Science Daily • Feb. 20, 2026
Climate scientists from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen in Bornholm analyzed ice cores from Greenland’s ice sheets and demonstrated that a major volcanic eruption occurred on the island 2,900 years ago.
From Salon • Jan. 23, 2025
Or matinee fodder for the likes of Niels Bohr and Erwin Schrödinger.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 11, 2024
For the first time in the history of astronomy, researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute have witnessed the birth of three of the universe's absolute earliest galaxies, somewhere between 13.3 and 13.4 billion years ago.
From Science Daily • May 23, 2024
Sometimes this was manifested as a new willingness to admit error, as when Niels Bohr visited Berkeley in April 1937 and casually demolished an Oppenheimer theory based on results from the cyclotron.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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