The Bohr family is a Danish family of scientists, scholars and

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smen. Its most famous members are: *

Niels Bohr Niels Henrik David Bohr (; 7 October 1885 – 18 November 1962) was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. B ...

, physicist and winner of the

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in 1922 *

Aage Bohr Aage Niels Bohr (; 19 June 1922 – 8 September 2009) was a Danish nuclear physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1975 with Ben Roy Mottelson and James Rainwater "for the discovery of the connection between collective motion and pa ...

, son of Niels, also a physicist and in 1975 also received the Nobel Prize *

Christian Bohr Christian Harald Lauritz Peter Emil Bohr (1855–1911) was a Danish physician, father of the physicist and Nobel laureate Niels Bohr, as well as the mathematician and football player Harald Bohr and grandfather of another physicist and Nobel lau ...

, physiologist; father of Niels and Harald. Grand father of Aage *

Harald Bohr Harald August Bohr (22 April 1887 – 22 January 1951) was a Danish mathematician and footballer. After receiving his doctorate in 1910, Bohr became an eminent mathematician, founding the field of almost periodic functions. His brother was the No ...

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and brother of Niels. Other members include: *; schoolmaster, grandfather of Harald and Niels; father of Christian *Ellen Adler Bohr, wife of Christian and mother of Harald, Niels and Jenny. She was the daughter of David Baruch Adler. * Margrethe Nørlund Bohr, wife of Niels and mother of Aage, Erik, Ernest, and Hans. Niels received tremendous amounts of support from his family. Ellen, Margrethe, and Harald are all known to have scribed some of Niels Bohr's papers for him as he dictated. Among these were his dissertation and possibly his Nobel Prize essay. Of Niels's sons, the oldest (also named Christian) died in a boating accident in young adulthood and another died from childhood meningitis. The others went on to lead successful lives, including

, who became a very successful physicist and, like his father, was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 1975. His other sons were ; a physician, ; a chemical engineer; and

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, a lawyer. Two of Aage's sons, Vilhelm and Tomas Bohr, are also academic researchers. Vilhelm is currently Senior Investigator in the Laboratory of Molecular Gerontology at the

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, working primarily on

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. Tomas is a Professor of Physics at the

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, working in the area of

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, whose work recently helped disprove a report that a macroscopic fluid dynamic system can exhibit quantum-like behavior. Vilhelm's son, Eliot Bohr, is an experimental physicist working in the field of

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Sport

Niels and Harald played as footballers, and the two brothers played a number of amateur matches for the Copenhagen-based

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, with Niels in goal and Harald in defence. Harald went to play for Denmark at the Olympics in 1908, winning the silver medal. There is, however, no truth in the oft-repeated claim that Niels emulated Harald by playing for the Danish national team.

Ernest Bohr Ernest David Bohr (7 March 1924 – 26 February 2018) was a Danish lawyer, former barrister, and field hockey player who played for Denmark in the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. Biography Bohr was born in Frederiksberg, Denmark on 7 March 1924, ...

was a 1948 Olympic

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player.

References

External links

Niels Bohr Family Correspondence, 18XX-1962

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