{"id":8483,"date":"2012-11-29T14:32:51","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T20:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8483"},"modified":"2012-11-29T14:37:50","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T20:37:50","slug":"for-winning-the-nobel-prize-niels-bohr-got-a-house-with-free-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8483","title":{"rendered":"For Winning The Nobel Prize, Niels Bohr Got A House With Free Beer"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Niels Bohr is one of the greatest scientists who ever lived and a personal hero of mine. He was also a favorite of his fellow Danes when he lived in Copenhagen. Today, however, I found out just <em>how much<\/em>\u00a0they loved him. Apparently, after he won the Nobel Prize in 1922, the <a href=\"http:\/\/carlsberg.com\/\">Carlsberg<\/a> brewery <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eversostrange.com\/2011\/08\/29\/niels-bohr-utilities-company-world\/\">gave him a gift<\/a> \u2013 a house located next to the brewery. And the best perk of the house? It had a direct pipeline to the brewery so that Bohr had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=okJnQIjELY4#t=2m55s\">free beer<\/a> on tap whenever he wanted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/alexknapp\/2012\/11\/28\/for-winning-the-nobel-prize-niels-bohr-got-a-house-with-free-beer\/\">For Winning The Nobel Prize, Niels Bohr Got A House With Free Beer &#8211; Forbes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So was free beer the reason why Bohr was able to make great strides in developing quantum mechanics? Okay, probably not \u2013 but I\u2019m sure a few late night drinking sessions with other physicists didn\u2019t hurt.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Niels Bohr is one of the greatest scientists who ever lived and a personal hero of mine. He was also a favorite of his fellow Danes when he lived in Copenhagen. Today, however, I found out just how much\u00a0they loved &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8483\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[995,645,802],"class_list":["post-8483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-free-beer","tag-history","tag-quantum-mechanics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8483"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8485,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8483\/revisions\/8485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}