ABSTRACT
On 24 October 1957, Robert Oppenheimer and the author took an early train from Princeton to Washington. They were on their way to the Great Hall of the National Academy of Sciences, where that afternoon, the first Atoms for Peace Award was to be presented in the presence of President Eisenhower. It was a festive event. The author first met Neils Bohr when I came to Copenhagen in 1946 as the first of the post-war postdoctoral crop from abroad. The first thing Bohr said to the author was that it would only then be profitable to work with him if the author understood that he was a dilettante. In the summer of 1912 Bohr married Margrethe Norlund. It was a superb marriage, as the author know especially well since during the summer of 1946 he lived with the Bohr family in their country house in Tisvilde, one of the happiest periods in his life.
