"The constant questioning of our values and achievements is a challenge without which neither science nor society can remain healthy."
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Nobel Prize Banquet Speech, December 10, 1975.
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Aage Niels Bohr
Aage Niels Bohr (19 June 1922 – 8 September 2009) was a Danish nuclear physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1975 with Ben Roy Mottelson and James Rainwater "for the discovery of the connection between collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of the atomic nucleus based on this connection". He was the son of Niels Bohr.
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