Monday, 28 October 2013

As a reward for winning the Nobel Prize, Niels Bohr got a house filled with unlimited beer!

In 1922, Niels Bohr - a renowned scientist at the time, and perhaps one of the greatest scientific minds that ever lived, received The Nobel Prize for his investigations into the structures of atoms and his early work in Quantum Mechanics. Bohr essentially advanced chemistry to the point where his studies had changed chemistry forever.
After receiving this prestigious award, Bohr became a national treasure, and was famed throughout Denmark. In fact, people respected him so much, Bohr found himself receiving gifts left right and center. One such gift was from the Carlsberg Brewery, which gave him a house in a plot of land beside the brewery.

Why was this gift so special? Well, the house came with a pipeline that went directly to the brewery, and supplied Bohr with FREE beer - for the rest of his life.

Everyone, focus on your education and become a scientist - you may just get free beer out of it.

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