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How did Niels Bohr travel from occupied Denmark to Sweden?
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In the fall of 1943, the political climate in Denmark shifted significantly following the collapse of the Danish government's collaboration with German occupiers. After receiving a warning that his arrest was imminent, Niels Bohr escaped by boat with his family across the narrow sound to Sweden.1
From Stockholm, Bohr was subsequently transported to Scotland via a military airplane and then traveled to London to join the Allied atomic bomb project.1