Niels Bohr

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    Niels Bohr 10/7/1885 - 11/18/1962

    Niels Bohr was born on July 10th, 1885, and passed away on November 18th, 1962.
  • Causality and Complementarity

    Causality and Complementarity
    Bohr, Niels. “Causality and Complementarity.” Philosophy of Science, vol. 4, no. 3, Williams and Wilkins Co., July 1937, pp. 289–98, doi:10.1086/286465
  • Bohr's theory in comparison with the paradigm it replaced

    The prevailing paradigm before Bohr was a causal approach to science, which means that the underlying physical principles to an observation were seen as immensely important. Scientists who worked using causality aimed to explain the deeper principle, or a physical law, in order to derive the observed phenomenon. While Bohr studied the atomic structure in more depth he found some entities for which causality did not offer...
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