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Harald Bohr

1887 - 1951

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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 Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr. He was on the Denmark national team for the 1908 Summer Olympics, where he won a silver medal. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Harald Bohr is the 190th most popular mathematician (down from 141st in 2019), the 128th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 102nd in 2019) and the most popular Danish Mathematician.

Harald Bohr is most famous for his work on atomic theory. He was the first to propose that electrons orbit the nucleus in quantized orbits. He also proposed that electrons only have a certain amount of energy that they can absorb or emit, which is called the Bohr model.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Harald Bohr ranks 190 out of 1,004. Before him are Édouard Lucas, Alonzo Church, Jean Gaston Darboux, Jakob Steiner, Hans Hahn, and G. I. Taylor. After him are Rafael Bombelli, Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow, Étienne-Louis Malus, Wacław Sierpiński, Camille Jordan, and Jan Łukasiewicz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Harald Bohr ranks 47. Before him are Kurt Schwitters, George Pólya, René Cassin, John Reed, Emilio Mola, and Luís Filipe, Prince Royal of Portugal. After him are Violet Jessop, Boris Karloff, Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick, Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni, Bernardo Houssay, and Arnold Zweig. Among people deceased in 1951, Harald Bohr ranks 25. Before him are Zaifeng, Prince Chun, Amélie of Orléans, Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth, Robert Walker, Charles G. Dawes, and Oswald Pohl. After him are Óscar Carmona, Paul Blobel, Kim Chaek, Soh Jaipil, Ivanoe Bonomi, and Élie Cartan.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Harald Bohr ranks 128 out of 1,032. Before him are Princess Thyra of Denmark (1853), Niels Gade (1817), Anna Ancher (1859), Magnus II of Sweden (1130), Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark (1753), and Prince George of Denmark (1653). After him are Sveinn Björnsson (1881), John Louis Emil Dreyer (1852), Bjarne Stroustrup (1950), Princess Ingeborg of Denmark (1878), Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel (1784), and Louis Hjelmslev (1899).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Denmark

Among mathematicians born in Denmark, Harald Bohr ranks 1. After him are Piet Hein (1905), Georg Mohr (1640), Johan Jensen (1859), Agner Krarup Erlang (1878), Julius Petersen (1839), Jørgen Pedersen Gram (1850), and Poul Heegaard (1871).

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