Copenhagen

Denmark is located between the United Kingdom (left), Germany (below), and Norway and Sweden (above). Denmark is a peninsula that has many islands, and is surrounded by the North Sea and Baltic Sea. According to the CIA World Fact Book, Denmark is almost twice the size of Massachusetts. The World Fact book also mentions Denmark’s climate, which is described as humid, but mild throughout the year. Even during the winter season the weather can mild, if not windy, with mostly overcast skies. The summers are normally cool. Denmark is a moderately populated country of about five million people. Of those five million people, 1.2 million of them live in the capital city of Copenhagen (danishnet). There are four major cities in Denmark where the population…

interview process involves questions pertaining to one’s professional competence, personality, and motivation. Employers in Denmark expect the applicant to have a broad understanding of their business. Denmark does offer what they consider casual or seasonal work in hotels and pubs, in addition to fruit harvests during the summer months. A large percentage of Danes also do volunteer work, which is a strong tradition in Denmark. Recreation in Denmark comes in many different forms. There…

It is a common misconception that science and literature are opposed. The common belief held is that the two cannot coexist because scientists are too focused on science and authors are too focused on the humanities. However, there is much blending between the two, with many scientists becoming authors and many authors taking an appreciation to science. As evidence, Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen is a perfect example as to how the two can cohabitate the same plane of knowledge and work together in…

Frederic Clemson Howe once said, “War demands sacrifice of the people. It gives only suffering in return.” This explains the situations of Robert Ross, Werner Heisenberg, and Niels Bohr. They all sacrificed, which only lead to suffering for all of them. Although one is a coming of age novel about a WW1 soldier and the other is a play about an imaginary meeting of WWII scientists, both The Wars by Timothy Findley and Copenhagen by Michael Frayn explore the ways in which war affects individuals…

Mark Frayn’s Copenhagen takes us on an historical sleuth adventure that is performed by the ghosts of Danish physicist Niels Bohr, his colleague and “adopted son” Werner Heisenberg, and Bohr’s wife Margrethe. Heisenberg was an overall boyish companion of Bohr who would go on long walks and talk physics to. However, the mystery is when Heisenberg visited the Bohrs in Copenhagen in 1941. The play explores the meeting and discusses different topics, such as building atomic bombs, escaping Nazi…

Happened in Copenhagen?: A Physicist's View and the Playwright's Response,” Pais argues the historical accuracy of Michael Frayn’s 1998 play, Copenhagen. Frayn’s play depicts a meeting that took place in 1941 between prominent physicist Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg. The play takes place is the Nazi occupied Denmark, and sheds light on the political issues both men are facing. Following Pais’s dispute regarding small details of the play, Frayn then gives his response to Pais’s argument. In…

familiar with his equations and work in physics, many are not as aware of how his contributions and character had enormous consequences in the outcome of World War II. There are many small tactical decisions and results that had huge impacts on the success or failure of the German war effort, and Heisenberg was in a position of great influence towards what could have been a war dominating advantage. While the play Copenhagen, by Michael Frayn, is essentially about the great uncertainty…

Tycho Brahe was born in 1546 in a Danish high nobility family, during a time in which Denmark had just transitioned from Roman Catholic to Lutheran, and had emerged as a dominant power that not only covered the area of modern Denmark, but of Norway and Iceland. Tyco was raised by his uncle Jorgen, who wanted a child so dearly that he abducted Tycho from Tycho’s parents. Born to one of the most prominent families in Denmark, Tycho’s led an early life with privilege and indulgence. He was educated…

Character: Annemarie Johansen Annemarie Johansen is a ten year old girl that lives in an apartment complex with her mother,father and little sister in Copenhagen,Denmark. Her best friend, Ellen Rosen happens to live next door with her mother and father. Annemarie has silvery blonde hair and a lanky stature,she’s also very tall. She loves to run and play pretend and act out scenes of Gone With the Wind using paper dolls with Ellen by her side. Annemarie is also extremely wise and brave beyond…

are ultimately making the same point: it is the act of observation which determines the reality. Another work of Bohr was the Copenhagen Interpretation, which states that all possibilities are real until the act of observation collapses the wave function. This means that super positioning, the ability of a sub-atomic particle to be in many places at once, is real until observed. This was seen as plausible to many scientists, with Everett proposing the Many Worlds Theory in 1957 as a companion…