Blegdamsvej 17

Blegdamsvej 17 Originally uploaded by abostick59.

I am a fanboy at heart, and my first education was in physics. So it was natural that the one place in Copenhagen that I most wanted to see was Blegdamsvej 17, the site of the Niels Bohr Institutet and the Nordisk Institut for Teoretisk Fysik, funded by the Carlsberg brewery. From its founding in 1920 through the beginning of the Second World War, Blegdamsvej 17 was the epicenter of the quantum revolution that reshaped physics. Everyone who was anyone in theoretical physics made their way there at one time or another. I learned the history of that remarkable time in George Gamow's book Thirty Years that Shook Physics, which I read as a teenager.

So I have made my own pilgrimage to Blegdamsvej 17. They are not particularly adapted to receiving tourists, but I did take pictures from the outside.

Posted by abostick at June 24, 2007 06:31 AM