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This reads as a judgment about intellectual reach, not just fame. It points to Bohr as someone whose ideas shaped both the science itself and the people working inside it, even more than another towering figure, so the emphasis is on influence as a force that changes a whole field. It lands when people try to name the thinker who set the tone for an entire generation of research.
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