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Similar passages with the same tone may be found in Bohr (1932), on 359, 363, 366, 368, and 373. Folse even claims that, for Bohr, the reduction of chemistry to physics is the whole purpose of atomic physics; “Bohr understood the fundamental task of atomic physics to be accounting for the properties of the chemical elements in terms of atomic structures” (Folse, 1985, 57). Also compare Kragh (1985a) (especially 50–51) and Kragh (1985b). — That the conviction, as widespread among physicists today as it was then, that chemistry must, at least in principle, be reducible without remainder to physics, is not only not self-evidently true, but perhaps even false, has recently been noted, especially by Hans Primas. See Primas (1981), (1985a), and (1985b).