Gordon Uber wrote: > > Mike, > > It is a great story, which I still enjoy, but I understand that it arose > concerning different student at Washington University in St. Louis, > Missouri--not Niels Bohr in Copenhagen. It is indeed an amusing story but the version that I know mentions neither Bohr or a Washington University student (at least not identified as such).
It was first published (I believe) by Alexander Calandra in The Saturday Review of 21 December 1968 (p. 60) and again as the chapter "Free Thinking" in Robert L. Weber's delightful anthology More Random Walks in Science (Institute of Physics, Bristol/London, 1982), pp. 32-33. If there is an earlier version of this story (perhaps even going back to Bohr), I would be interested in learning its source. ======================================================== * Robert H. van Gent * Tel/Fax: 00-31-30-2720269 * * Zaagmolenkade 50 * * * 3515 AE Utrecht * E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * The Netherlands * * ******************************************************** * Home page: http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/homepage.htm * ========================================================
