); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY At 02:10 PM 10/31/2007 , Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> >>"Describe how to determine the height of a skyscraper with a barometer." >> >>[urban legend] >> >>The student was Nils Bohr, the first Dane to win the Nobel prize for >>Physics. > >No, it most certainly was not Niels Bohr, and I seriously doubt it >was anybody, as this particular urban legend was already old when >I studied physics...
There's a retelling of the same story in one of the (excellent!) Jim Williams books. -- newell N5TNL _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
