Bohr escapes from occupied Denmark
1943 · Event
Warned of his imminent arrest, Bohr flees by boat to Sweden, presses the Swedish king to shelter Denmark's Jews, then is flown to Britain in a Mosquito's bomb bay and joins the Allied atomic project.
On these timelines: Scandinavia, the Nordic World & the Viking Age, The Manhattan Project, Science & Technology, Master, World War II
More from The Manhattan Project
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Trinity test (first atomic bomb) (1945)
- Einstein-Szilard letter (1939)
- Los Alamos Laboratory established (1943)
- Roosevelt authorises the atomic bomb (1942)
- The Interim Committee recommends use (1945)
- Truman is told about the bomb (1945)
- The MAUD Report says the bomb is feasible (1941)
Around 1943
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)
- The Holocaust (1933)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- World War II (1939)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Apartheid (1948)