By Finn Aaserud

The Niels Bohr gathered Works at the moment are entire with the book of quantity 12, Popularization and folks (1911-1962). Niels Bohr is mostly considered as the most influential physicists of the 20th century. the next are just many of the excessive issues. In 1913, Bohr proposed a innovative version of the atom breaking with classical conceptions of physics. In 1921, he proven the Institute for Theoretical Physics on the college of Copenhagen, which grew to become the centre for the recent physics visited via the more youthful new release of physicists from around the world. From 1927, he oversaw the improvement resulting in the "Copenhagen interpretation" of quantum mechanics which for Bohr shaped the root for an epistemology legitimate past physics in accordance with Bohr's complementarity idea. In 1939, he defined the mechanism of nuclear fission. ultimately, from 1943 till the tip of his existence in 1962, he performed a private political undertaking to set up an open global among international locations which he thought of to be beneficial in view of the lifestyles of the atomic bomb. some of these contributions are amply documented within the previous volumes of the Niels Bohr accumulated Works. This final quantity files Niels Bohr as anyone and his efforts to give an explanation for quantum physics and its implications to physicists and non-physicists alike. whereas his task over decades within the zone of superconductivity illustrates his striving for synthesis in physics, his encyclopaedia articles and radio speech for Scandinavian health club scholars record his attempt to make quantum physics and its implications comprehensible to most people. the majority of the quantity includes Bohr's many released writings approximately his predecessors (for instance Isaac Newton), academics and associates (for instance Ernest Rutherford and Albert Einstein), friends and family. those writings, which come with numerous infrequent items of autobiogaphy, carry new views to Bohr's lifestyles and record his titanic social community, either the world over and inside of his cherished Denmark. as well as Bohr's courses reproduced in elements I and II, the quantity incorporates a extra short half III with chosen correspondence, in addition to a list of correct manuscripts. It concludes with a bibliography of Bohr's many guides, chronologically prepared with references to the place they are often present in many of the volumes of the gathered Works. the quantity is illustrated with many new pictures. * Niels Bohr * gathered Works * Archival files * unique pictures