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Aage Bohr

1922 - 2009

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Aage Niels Bohr (Danish: [ˈɔːwə ˈne̝ls ˈpoɐ̯ˀ] ; 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 particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of the atomic nucleus based on this connection". His father was Niels Bohr. Starting from Rainwater's concept of an irregular-shaped liquid drop model of the nucleus, Bohr and Mottelson developed a detailed theory that was in close agreement with experiments. Since his father, Niels Bohr, had won the prize in 1922, he and his father are one of the six pairs of fathers and sons who have both won the Nobel Prize and one of the four pairs who have both won the Nobel Prize in Physics. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Aage Bohr is the 102nd most popular physicist (down from 96th in 2019), the 35th most popular biography from Denmark (up from 46th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Danish Physicist.

Aage Bohr was a Danish physicist who is most famous for the Bohr model of the atom.

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Among physicists, Aage Bohr ranks 102 out of 851. Before him are J. Hans D. Jensen, Percy Williams Bridgman, Jean Baptiste Perrin, William Henry Bragg, Eugene Wigner, and Donald A. Glaser. After him are Thomas Young, Peter Debye, Mikhail Lomonosov, Georges Lemaître, Hannes Alfvén, and Dennis Gabor.

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Among people born in 1922, Aage Bohr ranks 14. Before him are Hiroo Onoda, Norodom Sihanouk, Franjo Tuđman, Thomas Kuhn, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, and Emil Zátopek. After him are Pierre Cardin, Ava Gardner, Erich Hartmann, Gérard Philipe, Jack Kerouac, and Erving Goffman. Among people deceased in 2009, Aage Bohr ranks 8. Before him are Patrick Swayze, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Robert McNamara, Kim Dae-jung, Roh Moo-hyun, and Ramaswamy Venkataraman. After him are Millvina Dean, Paul Samuelson, Maurice Jarre, Pina Bausch, Corazon Aquino, and Jean Dausset.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Aage Bohr ranks 35 out of 1,032. Before him are Björn Ironside (800), Henrik Pontoppidan (1857), Fredrik Bajer (1837), Alexandra of Denmark (1844), Christian VII of Denmark (1749), and Karen Blixen (1885). After him are Frederick VI of Denmark (1768), Frederick V of Denmark (1723), Abel, King of Denmark (1218), Rasmus Rask (1787), Frederick VIII of Denmark (1843), and Queen Anne-Marie of Greece (1946).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Denmark

Among physicists born in Denmark, Aage Bohr ranks 3. Before him are Niels Bohr (1885), and Hans Christian Ørsted (1777). After him are Martin Knudsen (1871), Ole Worm (1588), Ludvig Lorenz (1829), Lene Hau (1959), and Henrik Svensmark (1958).

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