Ontario
Ontario city (1990 pop. 133,179), San Bernardino co., S Calif., near Los Angeles, in a region of vineyards; inc. 1891. Manufactures include aircraft and aircraft parts, aerospace vehicle parts, sporting and leather goods, wine, electrical equipment, and plastics. High-technology industries in the southern California area have added to Ontario's development; it was one of the fastest-growing U.S. cities in the late 20th cent. Founded in 1882 as a planned community, the city is the site of an international airport and Ontario Motor Speedway.
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 11/18/1994; 492 words
; ...painter, 1876; Marcel Proust, author, 1922; Thomas Power O'Connor, journalist and politician, 1929; Niels Henrik David Bohr, physicist, 1962; Mervyn Laurence Peake, author and artist, 1968; Walter Wanger (Feuchtwanger), film...
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Leading a net.(network)(Report)
Magazine article from: Public Management; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; How a wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress. --NIELS HENRIK DAVID BOHR, DANISH PHYSICIST AND WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS, 1922 The leader is the person at the top of an organization...
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Obituary: Professor Paul Feyerabend
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 3/4/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...English. Other visitors included Georg Henrik von Wright the young American philosopher...symposium on philosophy and physics with David Bohm, J.P. Vigier and others...scholarly defence of the physicist Niels Bohr against Popper's criticisms of...
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Niels Henrik David Bohr
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Niels Henrik David Bohr The Danish physicist Niels Henrik David Bohr (1885-1962) formulated the first successful explanation of some major lines of the hydrogen spectrum. The Bohr theory of the atom has become the foundation of modern atomic...
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Bohr, Niels Henrik David
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Bohr, Niels Henrik David ( b . Copenhagen, Denmark, 7 October...understanding of the theory of knowledge. Niels Bohr in particular was very conscious...arrive at a complete description. Niels and Herald Bohr were admitted as silent listeners...
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Bohr, Niels (1885-1962)
Book article from: World of Earth Science
...century. Also during the 1920s, Bohr thought and wrote about some of the...work in physics. In the 1930s, Bohr became interested in problems of...explanation of nuclear fission . Niels Henrik David Bohr was born on in Copenhagen, Denmark...
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