Post by Troels Balmer Christensen

Niels Bohr (1885-1962) and his research environment and philosophy in Copenhagen was a great inspiration for many scientists; also outside physics and quantum mechanics, e.g. in biology in the early days of the quest to understand and unfold the nature of and link between DNA, RNA and proteins. “Delbrück succeeded in creating at Cold Spring Harbor that spirit of ceaseless questioning, dialogue, and open-armed embrace of a life in science which he had learned from Bohr - but with a down-to-earth American character and a good measure of his own high-minded intolerance of shoddy thinking” Reference: Horace Freeland Judson, “The Eighth Day of Creation”