The Bohr Festival (german: Bohrfestspiele) was a series of seven lectures given by
Niels Bohr
Niels Henrik David Bohr (; 7 October 1885 – 18 November 1962) was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922 ...
12 to 22 June 1922
at the
Institute of Theoretical Physics in
Göttingen
Göttingen (, , ; nds, Chöttingen) is a university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the capital of the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. At the end of 2019, the population was 118,911.
General information
The ori ...
. These were the Wolfskehl Lectures, funded by the Wolfskehl Foundation. Taking place in the fortnight leading up to the
Göttingen International Handel Festival, it became known as the Bohr Festival.
In 1991,
Friedrich Hund
Friedrich Hermann Hund (4 February 1896 – 31 March 1997) was a German physicist from Karlsruhe known for his work on atoms and molecules.
Scientific career
Hund worked at the Universities of Rostock, Leipzig, Jena, Frankfurt am Main, and Göt ...
suggested that
James Franck
James Franck (; 26 August 1882 – 21 May 1964) was a German physicist who won the 1925 Nobel Prize for Physics with Gustav Hertz "for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom". He completed his doctorate i ...
responsible for the comparison.
In the lectures Bohr outlined the current development of the
Bohr-Sommerfeld theory, remarking "how incomplete and uncertain everything still is".
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