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Born
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Received the Nobel Prize in Physics
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Presented complementarity thoery at International Congress of Physicists
Objects have pairs of complementary properties that cannot all be observed at the same time. Based on Thomas Young's Double-Slit experiment, Bohr theorized that all particles have both wave and particle like properties, but only one can be observed at a time. This formed the complementarity theory, also known as the "duality paradox." Best example of this is the wave-particle duality concept in quantum mechanics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave%E2%80%93particle_duality# -
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CERN Founding Member
Sixth session of CERN Council, the convention establishing the organization was signed. -
Died
Copenhagen, Denmark