'Copenhagen' descendants differ, too.(LIFE)(PARTY LINES)

From: The Washington Times (Washington, DC) | Date: March 4, 2002 | Copyright information

Byline: Ann Geracimos, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

The meeting between physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg in Copenhagen in 1941 when the two men were on opposites sides in World War II was a curious thing. The Tony Award-winning drama, "Copenhagen," now at the Kennedy Center, turns on disagreement about what might have been discussed by the two men, both of whom were involved in experiments that led to development of the atom bomb.

Equally curious, then, was the meeting of sorts between two descendants of the famous scientists at a reception Friday in the residence of ...

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