Fact 1
His full name was Neils Henrik David Bohr. He was a member of the college soccer team and always wished that he be able to play the game as well as his brother. The latter eventually went on to play with the 1908 Olympic Danish team who won the silver.
Fact 2
Bohr worked very closely with Albert Einstein in 1938 and helped carry-out atomic research;
Fact 3
Fearing arrest by the Germans, David Bohr escaped to Britain during World War II. He moved to the U.S from there and worked in Mexico’s Los Alamos laboratory on the Manhattan Project. It was this very project that led to the creation of the first atom bomb.
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