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Niels Bohr (1885–1962) was a Danish physicist who created the first widely accepted model of atomic structure. In three articles published in 1913, he proposed the Bohr model of the atom. Faced with the opposing particle and wave interpretations of atomic phenomena in the new quantum mechanics, he proposed the complementarity principle of using both interpretations to fully explain the results. Bohr received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. He founded the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen, now known as the Niels Bohr Institute. He correctly predicted the properties of an undiscovered element, hafnium. Later, the element bohrium was named after him. During the 1930s, Bohr helped refugees from Nazism and in September 1943 fled to Britain to avoid arrest by the Germans. There he joined the Tube Alloys nuclear weapons project, and later the Manhattan Project. After the war, he was involved with the establishment of CERN. (Full article...)

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The Dover Boys at Pimento University is a 1942 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Chuck Jones and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. A parody of the Rover Boys, a popular juvenile fiction book series of the early 20th century, it was one of the first cartoons to make extensive use of limited animation, as well as other techniques that would only be more broadly popularized in the 1950s. Michael Barrier, an animation historian, wrote: "Is The Dover Boys the first 'modern' cartoon? ... Chuck Jones stylized the animation in this cartoon in a way that anticipated what several consciously modern studios like UPA would be doing a decade later." The Dover Boys was voted by animation professionals as number 49 in The 50 Greatest Cartoons, published in 1994. It was released on September 19, 1942, and has a running time of 8 minutes, 56 seconds.

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