EPISODE IN DENMARK
Toksvig, Gudrun
Episode In Denmark By GUDRUN TOKSVIG Science Service Correspondent ' Copenhagen DEPARTING Nazis have left undamaged the physical laboratory and equipment of Prof. Niels Bohr, world-famous...
...Niels Bohr, world-famous scientist who in 1922 received the Nobel Prize for his researches on the structure of the atom...
...Bohr's first assistant, a Dr...
...Because Prof...
...Subsequently Prof...
...Boeggild...
...and even the laboratory foreman was locked up for ten days...
...To insure against Danish sabotage of the equipment, Prof...
...With him went another eminent scientist who also had Jewish ancestors, Hungarian Prof...
...Bohr has Jewish blood in his veins, he expected persecution by the Nazis, and escaped to Sweden in October, 1943...
...6, 1943...
...When the Nazis were unable to find any competent physicist in Germany willing to act as receiver of this stolen property they finally reluctantly returned the Institute to the University of Copenhagen...
...To the credit of leading German physicists, it is now made known that they refused to take possession of the Institute for Theoretical Physics when their political masters seized it on Dec...
...Bohr made his way to England, and on the pretext (subsequently proved groundless) that he was there engaging in war work for the Allies, the Nazis took possession of the Institute here, of which he is director...
...George Hevesey, who in 1943 was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his pioneer investigations on "heavy water...
...was imprisoned for seven weeks...
Vol. 9 • June 1945 • No. 23
