[time-nuts] Danish Question

[Rob Kimberley]

My apologies - I have been misinformed!

Rob 

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<!&!AAAAAAAAAAAYAAAAAAAAAOYAZyOzV8ERq+LmT45ypI7CgAAAEAAAAMh4axYd2AtA
t4NbktzPwJcBAAAAAA==@timing-consultants.com>, "Rob Kimberley" writes:

>The following concerns a question in a physics degree exam at the
University
>of Copenhagen:
>
>
>"Describe how to determine the height of a skyscraper with a barometer."
>
>[urban legend]
>
>The student was Nils Bohr, the first Dane to win the Nobel prize for
>Physics.

No, it most certainly was not Niels Bohr, and I seriously doubt it
was anybody, as this particular urban legend was already old when
I studied physics...

Poul-Henning

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