Astral Codex Ten

Bohr

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Bohr

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Bohr is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between June 14, 2021 and November 18, 2021. The archive places it in contexts such as “including Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, Dirac, Schrodinger”; “Apparently the Bohrs weren’t the only family to produce both great scientists and Olympians”. It most often appears alongside Einstein, 23andme, AB.

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  • Category: People
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: June 14, 2021
  • Last seen: November 18, 2021

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Contra Smith On Jewish Selective Immigration
June 14, 2021 · Original source
There...aren't a lot of European Jews left to survey, but a lot of pre-Holocaust Europe's greatest geniuses seemed to be Jewish. The Fifth Solvay Conference was a 1927 meeting of Europe's top physicists, including Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, Dirac, Schrodinger, etc. 17% of attendees were from Jewish backgrounds, compared to about 3% Jews in the overall European population (and the vast majority of European Jews were very poor Jews in Russia, which was not really developed at the time, so realistically maybe 1% of the population in the kind of countries these people were coming from).
Inline links: Fifth Solvay Conference
Highlights From The Comments On Great Families
November 18, 2021 · Original source
Niels Bohr was a goalkeeper on the same top club team (AB) as his brother but left after a season:
Lots of people had interesting examples from sports. Apparently the Bohrs weren’t the only family to produce both great scientists and Olympians. Yeangster notes that Susan Francia, two time Olympic gold medal winner in rowing, is the daughter of Katalin Kariko, inventor of mRNA vaccines. GeriatricZergling writes:
Inline links: Yeangster, writes