Aage Bohr

Aage Bohr
Aage Bohr
	Bohr in 1955
Born	19 June 1922; Copenhagen, Denmark
Died	8 September 2009 (aged 87); Copenhagen, Denmark
Alma mater	University of Copenhagen
Known for	Geometry of atomic nuclei
Parent(s)	Niels Bohr, Margrethe Nørlund
Awards	Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics (1960); Atoms for Peace Award (1969); H. C. Ørsted Medal (1970); Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (1971); Rutherford Medal and Prize (1972); John Price Wetherill Medal (1974); Nobel Prize in Physics (1975);
	Scientific career
Fields	Nuclear physics
Institutions	Manhattan Project; Institute for Advanced Study; Columbia University; University of Copenhagen;
Thesis	Rotational States of Atomic Nuclei (1954)

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.

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