Little is known about the circumstances that led the teenage Albert Einstein not to follow through with his bar mitzvah, but ...

For decades, the story went that Bohr’s anti-realism triumphed over Einstein’s quest for a deeper reality. Physicists were told to "shut up and calculate" and metaphysical debates were dismissed as ...

Khalili reviews Quantum Drama, a new book by physicist and science writer Jim Baggott and the late historian of science John ...

Tell us about your education. My formal schooling began when I was seven, at the Gammelholm School in Copenhagen, Denmark. I did well in all my studies -- well, all studies except composition ...

Alongside Max Planck's work on quanta of heat, and Niels Bohr's later work on quanta of matter, Einstein's work anchors the most shocking idea in 20th-century physics: we live in a quantum ...

Niels Bohr’s base of theoretical operations lent its name to what became known as the “Copenhagen interpretation” of quantum mechanics, according to which – to put it very crudely ...

Einstein wasn't the biggest cheerleader for quantum theory. In fact, he argued back and forth with physicist Niels Bohr over certain occurrences that he believed violated fundamental laws of physics.

Niels Bohr was born and educated in Copenhagen, Denmark. He lived, worked, and died there, too. But his mark on science and history was worldwide. His professional work and personal convictions ...