Jewish physics: 'The Man Who Broke Reality' spotlights Nazi-defying scientist Niels Bohr - review

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In this excellent biography, 'The Man Who Broke Reality' by Philip Ball, Bohr is revealed as a great humanitarian who tried to help many Jewish colleagues who had fled Nazism.

In 1998, Michael Frayn's play Copenhagen opened to great acclaim on the London stage. It purported to elucidate a conversation between the great Danish scientist, Niels Bohr, and the German Werner Heisenberg, in the autumn of 1941.This conversation occurred during the occupation of Denmark by the Nazis, who regarded the country as a model for Aryan states. The Danes, with few resources, did not resist the Nazi takeover, but its social democratic government rebuffed German pressure to take action against its Jews.Frayn's brilliant and insightful play was marvelous theater, but the question is still unresolved as to whether it reflected the reality of history.

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