Chasing Heisenberg: The Race for the Atom Bomb (Kindle Single) by Joseloff Michael

Author:Joseloff, Michael [Joseloff, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Amazon Publishing
Published: 2018-01-08T16:00:00+00:00

WHAT INTELLIGENCE AMERICA DID possess came chiefly from scientists fleeing Nazi-occupied Europe, men like the Danish physicist Niels Bohr, the man who had identified U235 as the source of atomic energy. Bohr, whose mother was Jewish, had returned to his home in Copenhagen after his stint at Princeton University. When the Nazis invaded in 1940, they chose not to roil the waters by arresting Danish Jews. But that changed in 1943, and Bohr, with the help of British intelligence, escaped to England.

On December 30, 1943, General Groves showed up at Los Alamos with a special guest traveling under the name Nicholas Baker. Oppenheimer immediately recognized the distinguished Dane, Niels Bohr.

Bohr had enjoyed a near twenty-year father-son relationship with Heisenberg. They had first met in the summer of 1922 in Göttingen where Bohr was a guest lecturer and Heisenberg one of his students. Bohr took a liking to the brilliant young German. In the decade that followed, the period when Heisenberg produced his greatest work, Bohr was his collaborator and chief critic.

The two had vacationed together at Bohr’s ski cottage and gone on long sailing trips together. Heisenberg had played with Bohr’s children, taking them on pony rides. 125 The war had severed Heisenberg’s relations with many friends on the Allied side. None of those lost friendships pained him more than the loss of Bohr’s friendship. After the war began, Heisenberg wrote his mentor an affectionate farewell: “Since I don’t know whether and when our destiny will lead us together again, I will once again thank you for . . . everything you have done for me.” 126

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