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Aage Niels Bohr
Aage Niels Bohr , 1922–2009, Danish physicist, Ph.D. Univ. of Copenhagen, 1954. He worked with his father Niels Bohr (who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922) in the 1940s on the development of the atomic bomb, became a professor of physics in 1956, and succeeded (1963–70) his father as head of what became the Niels Bohr Institute, Univ. of Copenhagen. From 1975 to 1981 he was the director of the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics. Bohr and colleague Benjamin Mottelson helped prove the theories of James Rainwater regarding the structure of atomic nuclei. The trio shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work. |
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Bohr, Aage Niels
Bohr, Aage Niels (1922–) Danish physicist Bohr, the son of Niels Bohr, was born in the Danish capital, Copenhagen, and educated at the university there. After postgraduate work at the University of London from 1942 to 1945 he returned to Copenhagen to the Institute of Theoretical Physics, where he served as professor of physics from 1958 to 1981.
When Bohr began his research career the shell model of the nucleus of Maria Goeppert-Mayer and Hans Jensen had just been proposed in 1949. Almost immediately Leo James Rainwater produced experimental results at odds with the predictions derived from a spherical shell model, and proposed that some nuclei were distorted rather than perfectly spherical. Bohr, in collaboration with Ben Mottelson, followed Rainwater's work by proposing their collective model of nuclear structure (1952), so called because it was argued that the distorted nuclear shape was produced by the participation of many nucleons. For this work Bohr shared the 1975 Nobel Prize for physics with Rainwater and Mottelson. |
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"Bohr, Aage Niels." A Dictionary of Scientists. 1999. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Bohr, Aage Niels." A Dictionary of Scientists. 1999. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O84-BohrAageNiels.html "Bohr, Aage Niels." A Dictionary of Scientists. 1999. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O84-BohrAageNiels.html |
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