Aage Bohr

Dates

June 19, 1922 – September 8, 2009

Authorized Form of Name

Bohr, Aage

Additional Forms of Names

Bohr, Aage, 1922-2009

Bohr, Aage N., 1922-2009

Bohr, Aage N. (Aage Niels), 1922-2009

Biography

Abstract

Physicist (theoretical physics, nuclear physics). He worked at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory with his father Niels Bohr. He was Professor of Physics (1956) and Director of the Niels Bohr Institute of Physics (1963-1970). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1975 with Ben Mottelson and Leo 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."

Important Dates

June 19, 1922Birth, Copenhagen (Denmark).

1945Junior Scientific Officer, D.S.I.R. (Department of Scientific and Industrial Research), Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Manhattan Project, Los Alamos (N.M.).

1946Obtained Master's degree in Physics, University of Copenhagen (Københavns universitet), Copenhagen (Denmark).

1946 – 1970Research Fellow (1946); Professor of Physics (1956); and Director, Niels Bohr Institute of Theoretical Physics (1963-1970), University of Copenhagen (Københavns universitet), Copenhagen (Denmark).

1948Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (N.J.).

1949 – 1950Visiting Fellow, Columbia University, New York (N.Y.).

1954Obtained Doctorate degree in Physics, University of Copenhagen (Københavns universitet), Copenhagen (Denmark).

1957 – 1975Board member, Nordisk Institut for Teoretisk Atomfysik (NORDITA).

1969Wrote "Nuclear Structure 2”.

1969Awarded Atoms for Peace Award.

1972Awarded Rutherford Medal.

1975Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics with Ben R. 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".

September 8, 2009Death, Copenhagen (Denmark).

Occupation

Theoretical nuclear physicist.

Places

Subjects

Atomic and molecular physics.

Nuclear physics.

Theoretical physics.

Relationships

People

Family

Bohr, Christian

Grandfather.

Bohr, Ellen Adler

Grandmother.

Bohr, Harald August, 1887-1951

Uncle.

Bohr, Margrethe

Mother.

Bohr, Marietta Soffer

Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962

Father and PhD advisor at University of Copenhagen (Københavns universitet).

Advisors & Collaborators

Hansen, Ole, 1934-

Advised by Bohr at University of Copenhagen (Københavns universitet).

Low, Francis E. (Francis Eugene), 1921-2007

Advised by Bohr at Columbia University.

Mottelson, Ben R.

Shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physics along with L. 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."

Rabi, I. I. (Isidor Isaac), 1898-1988

PhD advisor at Columbia University.

Rainwater, L. James (Leo James), 1917-1986

Shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physics along with Ben Mottelson "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."