![]() ![]() ![]() After a brief discussion in the Bohrs' home, the two men went for a short walk. In 1941, the German scientist visited Bohr, his old mentor and long-time friend, in Copenhagen. The play's other two characters, the Danish physicist Niels Bohr and his wife, Margrethe, are involved with Heisenberg in an after-death analysis of an actual meeting that has long puzzled historians. But in his Tony Award-winning play Copenhagen, Michael Frayn shows us that these men were passionate, philosophical, and all too human, even though one of the three historical figures in his drama, Werner Heisenberg, was the head of the Nazis' effort to develop a nuclear weapon. The popular image of the men who made the bomb is of dispassionate intellects who number-crunched their way towards a weapon whose devastating power they could not even imagine. ![]() For most people, the principles of nuclear physics are not only incomprehensible but inhuman. ![]()
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