Niels Bohr

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Niels Bohr

Suggested Socionics type: ILI (NiTe, INTp)

Type Arguments

Argument for ILI: An overview of all the available images of Bohr shows a rather limited range of emotional expression, regardless of the situation. There are exceptions, but the difference is very clear especially in comparison to such contemporaries and colleagues as Schrödinger and Einstein. This suggests a very low focus on which is a characteristic of this type, among others.

Regarding his major contributions to the development of quantum theory, they were more focused on making workable, "visible" models that explained experimental data rather than plunging deeply in mathematical developments and theoretical fine-tunings; those were more to the taste of Erwin Schrödinger, Max Born, Paul Dirac and Werner Heisenberg, more likely types . The Bohr-Einstein debates on the Copenhagen interpretation and the uncertainty principle can be interpreted as vs approaches to understanding natural laws.

Argument against ILI: Bohr naturally assumed a leading role, as if of an informal coordinator, of the equally informal European quantum theory community, unlike Wolgang Pauli (perhaps a more obvious ILI) who assumed the more typical "critic" role in that community. Nothing prevents an ILI from taking over such a leading role but it does not sound natural for an ILI.

Alternative Typings

Alternative suggested socionics types: ILE, SLI, LII

Typings at SSS database: Niels Bohr

Suggested enneagram variants: 1w9, 5w6, so/sp.

See also

• Wikipedia article
• Videos about him
• 16T discussion