Copenhagen Spirit
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Der Kopenhagener Geist—“the Copenhagen Spirit,” an expression minted by Werner Heisenberg, originally referred to a certain way of tackling the problems of theoretical physics. The term later came to mean a way of working in general and the atmosphere that prevailed in the circle surrounding Niels Bohre.
Certain people seem to have the capacity to encourage ideas not only in themselves, but in others. Niels Bohr was one of those people. In the 1920s and ’30s, numerous physicists, chemists, and biologists were drawn to Copenhagen in order to speak with Bohr and to experience the milieu in which he lived and worked.
