Niels Bohr, a Danish physicist, was given a house next to the Carlsberg Brewery with free beer after winning the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. He founded the Institute for Theoretical Physics and proposed a theory for the hydrogen atom based on quantum theory. He also advocated for peaceful applications of atomic physics and fled Denmark during WWII.
There’s gratitude, and then there’s gratitude. Physicist Niels Bohr must have been aware of how much his fellow Danes appreciated him. After all, after he won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922, the Carlsberg Brewery gave him a house located next to the brewery. The best part? He had a direct line to the brewery, so he had free draft beer, upon request. This is gratitude. With the help of the Carlsberg Brewery scientific foundation and the Danish government, Bohr founded the Institute for Theoretical Physics in 1921, where much of the foundation for our understanding of quantum mechanics was laid. Fellow physicist Albert Einstein disagreed with many of Bohr’s theories, but Bohr’s work has been proven scientifically sound. Bohr had 115 publications to his name, and was president of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences, the Danish Cancer Committee, and chairman of the Danish Cancer Committee Atomic Energy Commission, among his many titles and honours.
More facts about Niels Bohr:
Niels Bohr fled Denmark during the German occupation and spent the last two years of World War II in England and the United States.
He proposed a theory for the hydrogen atom based on quantum theory, postulating that energy is transferred only in certain defined quantities.
Bohr advocated the peaceful application of atomic physics.
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