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Someone e-mailed this to me today, do you think it's true?
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Sir Ernest Rutherford, President of the Royal Academy, and recipient of
the Nobel Prize in Physics, related the following story:
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The name of the student was Niels Bohr." (1885-1962) Danish Physicist;
Nobel Prize 1922; best known for proposing the first 'model' of the atom
with protons & neutrons, and various energy state of the surrounding
electrons -- the familiar icon of the small nucleus circled by three
elliptical orbits ... but more significantly, an innovator in Quantum
Theory.