Niels Bohr was the spiritual father of the young Turks who built quantum theory. He pushed Heisenberg to preoccupy himself with the problem and accompanied him on his delvings into the mysteries of atoms. He mediated the argument between Heisenberg and Schrödinger, his two overly brilliant bickering children. It was he who formulated the way of thinking about the theory that has ended up in physics books all over the world. He was the scientist who perhaps strained more than any other to understand what it all meant. His discussion with Einstein on the plausibility of the theory lasted for
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