Physics 04 - Engrossing

On 9 November 1922, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences voted to award Albert Einstein the previously reserved 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics. On his journey home from delivering the acceptance speech in Sweden on July 11,1923, Einstein stopped by in Copenhagen to see his young friend Niels Bohr, who had won the Nobel for 1922. Bohr met him at the railway station to take him home. "We took the streetcar and talked so animatedly (about Quantum Mechanics) that we went much too far. We got off and traveled back, but again rode too far", Bohr recalled. "We rode to and fro and I can well imagine what the people thought about us." But, neither seemed to mind, for the conversation was so engrossing.