El viaje de Niels Bohr.

Dejo aquí un recorte que me hace mucha gracia en el que se relata el viaje que hizo Niels Bohr, el físico danés, para ser trasladado a Estados Unidos sin el conocimiento de los nazis. (Del libro American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, de Kai Bird y Martin J. Sherwin, 2005).

Oppenheimer was enormously gratified to have Bohr at his side. The fifty-seven-year-old Danish physicist had been smuggled out of Copenhagen aboard a motor launch on the night of September 29, 1943. Arriving safely on the Swedish coast, he was taken to Stockholm-where German agents plotted his assassination. On October 5, British airmen sent to his rescue helped Bohr into the bomb bay of an unmarked British Mosquito bomber. When the plywood aircraft approached an altitude of 20,000 feet, the pilot instructed Bohr to don the oxygen mask built into his leather helmet. But Bohr failed to hear the instructions- he later said the helmet was too small for his large head-and soon he fainted from lack of oxygen. He nevertheless survived the air journey and upon landing in Scotland, he remarked that he had had a pleasant nap.