Workshop on the Correspondence Between Niels and Harald Bohr

2 Sept 2025, 13:00 → 3 Sept 2025, 12:30 Europe/Copenhagen

Auditorium A (NBI)

Christian Joas (Niels Bohr Archive), Finn Gredal Jensen (DSL), Karen Skovgaard-Petersen (DSL), Martin Speirs (University of Copenhagen), Peter Zeeberg (DSL), Signe Strecker, Thomas Hansen (DSL)

The Workshop 

From 2-3 September 2025, the Niels Bohr Archive and the Danish Society for Language and Literature will host the Workshop on the Correspondence Between Niels and Harald Bohr. 

 

The Host Institutions

The Niels Bohr Archive (NBA) is an independent institution overseen be the University of Copenhagen with its own Board of Directors. It holds extensive archival material documenting the life and work of Niels Bohr and the history of physics in the twentieth century. It has established itself as one of the central institutions worldwide for documenting and rersearching the history of modern physics and its social and philosophical implications.

The Danish Society for Language and Literature (Det Danske Sprog- og Litteraturselskab -- DSL) is an independent society charged with publication and research in Danish language, literature, and philology.

 

Confirmed Speakers

Anja Skaar Jacobsen (NBA)

Helge Kragh (NBA)

Tinne Hoff Kjeldsen (MATH)

Jesper Lützen (MATH)

Kurt Ramskov 

Henrik Zinkernagel (Universidad de Granada)

Martin Speirs (IND/NBA)

Christian Joas (NBA)

 

 

 

Tuesday 2 September

13:00 → 13:15 The Edition of the Correspondence Between Niels and Harald Bohr

Speaker: Christian Joas (Niels Bohr Archive)

13:15 → 14:00 The Bohr Family

Speaker: Anja Skaar Jacobsen

14:00 → 14:45 Niels & Harald Bohr, correspondence, 1906-1950

Speaker: Helge Kragh

14:45 → 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 → 16:15 Niels Bohr and the Copenhagen Spirit

Speaker: Christian Joas (Niels Bohr Archive)

16:15 → 17:00 How Harald Bohr Promoted Laurent Schwartz and his Theory of Distributions

Speaker: Jesper Lützen

17:00 → 17:15 Coffee Break

17:15 → 18:00 The Niels-Harald relationship in Harald's perspective

Speaker: Kurt Ramskov

Wednesday 3 September

09:00 → 09:45 A Practical Materialist? Harald Bohr’s Early Career

Speaker: Martin Speirs (University of Copenhagen)

09:45 → 10:30 Episodes of interferences of War and Math in Werner Fenchel’s Mathematical Career

Speaker: Tinne Hoff Kjeldsen

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 11:45 Niels, Harald and Margrethe: What family letters reveal about the role of aesthetics in the history of quantum physics

Speaker: Henrik Zinkernagel

11:45 → 12:30 Short interventions (up to 5 minutes) by advisory board members + general discussion + wrap-up