Abstract
Bohr was enrolled at the University in the summer of 1903 after passing the examination with which the program of “gymnasium” “studentereksamen” culminates in the spring. As a freshman Bohr began studying physics under Professor Christian Christiansen, a study which continued until 1909 when he received his master of physics degree. Over the following two years he submitted and defended his doctoral dissertation at the University, and in 1911-12 he spent a year in England doing post-doctoral research in Cambridge and Manchester.
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P. Skov, Aarenes Høst. Erindringer fra mange Lande i urolige Tider (Harvest of the years. Recollections from many countries in times of unrest), Copenhagen 1961, p. 10.
V. Slomann, “Minder om samvaer med Niels Bohr” (Recollections of Niels Bohr). A feature article in the newspaper Politiken, 7.10.1955.
See S. Rozental (ed.), Niels Bohr, p. 24 f.
See Aarbog for Københavns Universitet 1904-07 (The Yearbook of the University of Copenhagen 1904-07), Copenhagen 1911, p. 122.
Slomann goes on to say: “But in the autumn of 1920 some of its former members met up as guests on a farm in South Zealand.” The farm must have been “Grubberholm”, the home of Astrid Lund and Elias Lunding.
See J. Witt-Hansen’s investigations concerning the Ekliptika Circle in his “Leibniz, Høffding, and the “Ekliptika” Circle”, Danish Yearbook of Philosophy, 17, 1980, 31-58.
Høffding’s trip to America is thoroughly described in his Erindringer, p. 202–14.
See Den filosofiske eksamen 1849-1911. Hovedeksamensprotokoller in the National Archive. K.U.35.18.01-05.
Included among the papers, now in the Royal Library, belonging to Harald Høffding’s son, Hans Høffding, is a handwritten inventory of his lectures and seminars from 1871 to 1912. The other source is a printed list in the Yearbooks of the University. There is a slight but most significant difference between these two sources for the spring of 1905, the term in which Ekliptika most certainly was founded. The hand-written inventory only mentions two series of lectures in this term: 1) The psychology of free will; 2) Philosophical theories (on the basis of modern philosophers); but in Aarbog for K0benhavns Universitet 1904-07, on page 122, we read concerning the spring term of 1905 that Høffding provided three series of lectures: 1) The psychology of will; 2) Philosophical theories in recent times; 3) Lectures on Kierkegaard. Since the yearbook also mentions the attendance figures for each series, it must, on this point, be more reliable than the handwritten inventory.
H. H0ffding, “Begrebet Villie” (”The concept of will”), Mindre Arbejder III, Copenhagen 1913, 28–52.
“Last interview”, Niels Bohr Archive, transcript, p. 1.
G. Cohn, “Harald Høffding og nans Filosofi” (Harald H0ffdimg and his Philosophy), Tilskueren, 50, 1933, 103–17.
W. James, The Principle of Psychology I-II, London 1891, Vol I, p. 206.
G. Holton, “The Roots of Complementarity”, Daedalus, 99, 1970, 1015–55, p. 1035.
D. Favrholdt, “Niels Bohr and Danish Philosophy”, pp. 217–18.
Last interview, Niels Bohr Archive, transcript, p. 1 f.
Archive for the History of Quantum Physics. Interview with Oscar Klein on 20th February 1963, nuniber 2 of 6 sessions, conducted by Th.S. Kuhn and J.L. Heilbron; quoted from p. 9 of the transcript.
Letter of 20 April 1909 from Niels to Harald, published in Niels Bohr, Collected Works, Vol. 1, p. 501, North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam 1972-.
Letter of 26 April 1909 from Niels to Harald, published in Collected Works, Vol. 1, p. 503.
J. Rud Nielsen, “Memories of Niels Bohr”, Physics Today, 16, 1963.
See M. Jammer: The Conceptual Development of Quantum Mechanics, p. 178 ff. McGraw-Hill, New York 1966; and G. Holton, “The Root of Complementarity”.
Harald Høffding, Søren Kierkegaard som Filosof (Søren Kierkegaard as philosopher), Copenhagen 1892, p. 74. Quoted from the 2nd edition 1919.
H. Høffding, A History of Modern Philosophy, Dover, New York 1955, II, pp. 287–88.
Ibid., p. 79.
Holton, “The Roots of Complementarity”, p. 1042
H. Høffding, Den menneskelige Tanke, dens Former og dens Opgave (Human Thought, Its Forms and Its Tasks), p. 288, Copenhagen 1910.
Ibid., p. 185.
See D. Favrholdt, “The Cultural Background of the Young Bohr”, p. 452. Rivistra di Storia della Scienza, 2, no.3 1985, 445-61.
Niels Bohr Archive, BSC: 3.
Niels Bohr Archive, BSC: 3.
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H. Høffding, Formel Logik (Formal Logic), 4th edition, Copenhagen 1903.
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Niels Bohr Archive, BSC: 3.
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