Aharonov's one meeting with Niels Bohr consisted of Bohr lecturing him for an hour rather than hearing his question
As a Bristol PhD student visiting Copenhagen with David Bohm, Yakir Aharonov was introduced to Niels Bohr via Bohr's assistant Aage Petersen. Aharonov recounts attempting to raise a specific measurement-theory problem (on measuring momentum in short times) and being cut off by Bohr, who then spoke uninterrupted for about an hour about his own views on measurement theory before ending the meeting, declaring it "a very interesting conversation." Aharonov reports colleagues later likened this to a similar story about Richard Feynman's single meeting with Bohr over path integrals — though that parallel is hearsay Aharonov heard from others, not his own experience, and is not itself a sourced claim about Feynman.
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Tier 1 Yakir Aharonov and Guy Hetzroni Wed Oct 21
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.30998 “I said 'Professor Bohr, I would like to tell you about a problem I have with measurement theory'. Bohr stopped me, and said 'Let me tell you something'. He then gave me a spiel, for one hour, with all his ideas about measurement theory. And then he said 'that was a very interesting conversation!'. And that was it.”
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