Re:
> I cannot comment on the authenticity of this story, but I
> found it amusing!
...

> "Describe how to determine the height of a skyscraper with a barometer."
...
> The student was Niels Bohr, the only Dane to win the Nobel Prize for
> physics.

Appears to have been paraphrased from an article (later a book)
by Alexander Calandra.

Check out:
   http://www.hawken.edu/ptra/archive/msg00842.html
and
   http://imartinez.etsin.upm.es/ot1/the%20barometer%20story.htm

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