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Margrethe Nørlund Bohr (7 March 1890 – 21 December 1984) was the Danish wife of and collaborator, editor and transcriber for physicist Niels Bohr who received the Nobel Prize. She also influenced her son, Nobel Prize winner Aage Bohr.
Directed by Michael Blakemore, it starred Philip Bosco (Niels Bohr), Michael Cumpsty (Werner Heisenberg), and Blair Brown (Margrethe Bohr). It won the Tony Award for Best Play, Best Featured Actress in a Play, Blair Brown, and Best Direction of a Play (Michael Blakemore).
Resources for Frayn's Copenhagen: Margrethe Bohr. The wife and complement of Niels Bohr, Margrethe Norlund Bohr was an integral part of his life and his work. In Act I of Copenhagen, Bohr says that he is "a mathematically curious entity: not one but half of two."
Abstract. Interview with Margarethe Bohr that is part of the Archives for the History of Quantum Physics oral history collection, which includes tapes and transcripts of oral history interviews conducted with ca. 100 atomic and quantum physicists.
Margrethe Bohr or Betty Schultz, listening and writing, functioned as a useful stand-ins for the non-scientist audience to whom Niels Bohr hoped his new physics might be accessible. Yes, these women wrote or typed for him, but they also provided a crucial intelligibility test.
Margrethe Nørlund entered Niels Bohr’s life in 1909 through her older brother, Niels Erik Nørlund, a fellow student of Bohr at the university. Margrethe and Niels Erik’s father was a pharmacist in the provincial town of Slagelse, some 60 miles south-west of Co penhagen. Niels and Margrethe were engaged in August 1910. It
Writing the Atom: Niels and Margrethe Bohr and the Construction of Quantum Theory. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. Abstract. This dissertation examines the material culture of quantum theoretical work from 1911 to 1927.
