Human Intelligence

Episode
Manhattan Project: Niels Bohr
Broadcast Info
2025 (13 mins)
Description
Niels Bohr said, ‘Anyone who is not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.' Naomi Alderman investigates the remarkable insights of a scientific genius. Bohr is the man who figured out the structure of the nucleus at the centre of the atom, recognising that the quantum world of tiny particles behaves very differently to the tangible, everyday world around us. He built a scientific family around him, mentoring some of the greatest theoretical physicists of the twentieth century.
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History

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The Open University, "Human Intelligence". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/252611 (Accessed 24 Dec 2025)