Bohr family
The Bohr family is a Danish family of scientists, scholars and amateur sportsmen.
Its most famous members are:
- Niels Bohr, physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922
- Aage Bohr, son of Niels, also a physicist and in 1975 also received the Nobel Prize
- Christian Bohr, physiologist; father of Niels and Harald. Grand father of Aage
- Harald Bohr, mathematician 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.[1]
Of Niels's sons, the oldest (also named Christian) died in a boating accident in young adulthood and another died from childhood meningitis.[2][3][4][5] The others went on to lead successful lives, including Aage Bohr, 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 Ernest, a lawyer.[5]
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 National Institutes of Health, working primarily on DNA repair. Tomas is a Professor of Physics at the Technical University of Denmark, working in the area of fluid dynamics, whose work recently helped disprove a report that a macroscopic fluid dynamic system can exhibit quantum-like behavior.[6]
Sport[]
Niels and Harald played as footballers, and the two brothers played a number of amateur matches for the Copenhagen-based Akademisk Boldklub, 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.[7] Ernest Bohr was a 1948 Olympic field hockey player.[8]
References[]
- ^ Interview of Margarethe Bohr by Thomas S. Kuhn, Aage Bohr, and Leon Rosenfeld on 1963 January 23, Niels Bohr Library & Archives, American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD USA.
- ^ NUCLEAR FAMILY: NIELS and MARGRETHE BOHR Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, pg 1. Accessed Mar 2013.
- ^ Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb. Simon and Schuster, 1986.
- ^ The Nobel Prize , Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Niels Bohr – Biography". Nobelprize.org. Retrieved 10 November 2011.
- ^ Wolchover, Natalie (11 October 2018). "Famous Experiment Dooms Alternative to Quantum Weirdness". Quanta Magazine. Retrieved 17 October 2018.
Oil droplets guided by “pilot waves” have failed to reproduce the results of the quantum double-slit experiment, crushing a century-old dream that there exists a single, concrete reality.
- ^ Dart, James (27 July 2005). "Bohr's footballing career". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 26 June 2011.
- ^ http://www.fanbase.com/Ernest-Bohr[permanent dead link]. Accessed 25 Jan 2013.
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