Bohr

(bôr)

  1. Bohr, Aage Niels 1922-; Dan. physicist: son of Niels
  2. Bohr, Niels (Henrik David) 1885-1962; Dan. nuclear & theoretical physicist

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Danish physicist. He won a 1922 Nobel Prize for investigating atomic structure and radiations. His son Aage Niels Bohr (born 1922), also a physicist, shared a 1975 Nobel Prize for discovering the asymmetry of atomic nuclei.

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