Background
BOHR, Aage was born on June 19, 1922 in Copenhagen. Son of Professor Niels Bohr and Margrethe Norlund.
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Aage BOHR, Danish physicist. Medal 1963; Award 1969; Medal 1970; Medal 1972; Medal 1974. Danish, Norwegian, Pontifical, Swedish, Polish, Finnish, Yugoslav Academies of Science, National Academy, of Sciences, United States of America, American Academy, of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society, Royal Physiograph Society, Lund, Sweden, Academy, of Technology Sciences, Copenhagen, Deutsche Academy, der Naturforscher Leopoldina.
Education
Doctor of Philosophy, University Copenhagen, Denmark, 1954. Doctor honoris causa, Manchester University, 1961. Degree (honorary), Oslo University, 1969.
Degree (honorary), Heidelberg University, 1971. Degree (honorary), Trondheim University, 1972. Degree (honorary), Uppsala University, 1975.
Career
Junior science officer Department of Science and Industrial Research, London, 1943-1945. Research associate Institute Theoretical Physics University Copenhagen, from 1946, professor physics, 1956—2009. Director Niels Bohr Institute, 1962-1970.
Member board Nordita, 1958-1974, director, 1975-1981.
Achievements
Membership
Member Danish, Norwegian, Yugoslavian, Polish, Swedish academies science, Royal Physiograph. Society Lund, Sweden, American Academy Arts and Sciences, National Academy of Sciences (United States), Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, American Philosophical Society, Finska Vetenskaps-Societeten, Pontifical Academy, Vetenskapsakade Uppsala Society, International Center Theoretical Physics (science council member, 1964-1968).
Connections
Married 1st Marietta Bettina (nee Soffer) (died in 1978), two son one daughter. Married 2nd Bente Scharff (nee Meyer) in 1981.
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Born
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Nationality
Danish
Education
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1954
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1961
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1969
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1971
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1972
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1975
Career
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1943 - 1945
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1956 - 2009
Awards
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Recipient Dannie Heineman prize, 1960. Pope Pius XI medal 1963. Atoms for Peace award, 1969. Hockey club Ørsted medal, 1970. Rutherford medal, 1972. John Price Wetherill medal, 1974. Nobel Prize in Physics, 1975. Ole Römer medal, 1976.Recipient Dannie Heineman prize, 1960. Pope Pius XI medal 1963. Atoms for Peace award, 1969.
Hockey club Ørsted medal, 1970. Rutherford medal, 1972. John Price Wetherill medal, 1974.
Nobel Prize in Physics, 1975. Ole Römer medal, 1976.