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Bohr</b></font><p><img src="aage-n-bohr-1-sized.jpg" height=300 width=210 align=right hspace=10 vspace=10 alt="Aage N. Bohr"><b>AKA</b> Aage Niels Bohr<p><b>Born:</b> <a href="/lists/688/000106370/" class=proflink>19-Jun</a>-<a href="/lists/921/000105606/" class=proflink>1922</a><br><b>Birthplace:</b> <a href="/geo/919/000069712/" class=proflink>Copenhagen, Denmark</a><br><b>Died:</b> <a href="/lists/138/000106817/" class=proflink>8-Sep</a>-<a href="/lists/276/000179736/" class=proflink>2009</a><br><b>Location of death:</b> <a href="/geo/919/000069712/" class=proflink>Copenhagen, Denmark</a><br><b>Cause of death:</b> unspecified<br><p><b>Gender:</b> Male<br><b>Religion:</b> <a href="/lists/866/000071653/" class=proflink>Lutheran</a><br><b>Race or Ethnicity:</b> White<br><b>Sexual orientation:</b> Straight<br><b>Occupation:</b> <a href="/lists/629/000096341/" class=proflink>Physicist</a><p><b>Nationality:</b> Denmark<br><b>Executive summary:</b> Determined shapes of nuclei<p>Nuclear physicist Aage N. Bohr was the son of <a href="/people/560/000024488/">Niels Bohr</a>, a key atomic physicist among whose contributions are included a model of the atom with electron orbits and corresponding energy levels. Although Lutheran, Bohr's family was originally Jewish and in 1943 both father and son fled for Sweden, where they remained until the end of the war.<p> Bohr and <a href="/people/898/000099601/">Ben R. Mottelson</a> were both puzzling over behaviors of the atomic nucleus which were not adequately explained by current models. The two began a collaboration, the fruit of which was three papers in 1952-53, explaining a non-spherical shape of the nucleus, its deformation manifested from the rotational motion and interactions of nucleons. Essentially, they combined aspects of the 1949 "shell" model of <a href="/people/848/000099551/">Jensen</a> and <a href="/people/847/000099550/">Goeppert-Mayer</a> with an earlier "droplet" model from the mid-1930s which was proposed to explain fluctuations observed during certain types of uranium fission. Observations taken by nuclear spectroscopy, at the time a new technology, confirmed the Mottelson/Bohr model.<p><b>Father:</b> <a href="/people/560/000024488/">Niels Bohr</a> (physicist and Nobel Laureate, b. 7-Oct-1885, d. 18-Nov-1962)<br><b>Mother:</b> Margrethe N鴕lund<br><b>Wife:</b> Marietta Soffer (m. 1950, d. 1978, two sons, one daughter)<br><b>Son:</b> Vilhelm<br><b>Son:</b> Tomas<br><b>Daughter:</b> Margrethe<br><b>Wife:</b> Bente Scharff Meyer (m. 1981, until his death)<br><p> High School: Sortedam Gymnasium<br> University: <a href="/edu/735/000071522/">PhD, University of Copenhagen (1954)</a><br> Scholar: <a href="/edu/735/000071522/">Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Copenhagen (1946-56)</a><br> Professor: <a href="/edu/735/000071522/">University of Copenhagen (1956-62)</a><br> Administrator: <a href="/edu/735/000071522/">Director, Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Copenhagen (1962-65)</a><br> Administrator: <a href="/edu/735/000071522/">Director, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen (1965-70)</a><br> Administrator: Director, Nordic Institute for Theoretical Nuclear Physics (1975-81)<br><p> <a href="/honors/201/000067997/">Nobel Prize for Physics</a> 1975 (with <a href="/people/898/000099601/">Ben R. Mottelson</a> and <a href="/people/901/000099604/">James Rainwater</a>)<br> <a href="/org/811/000055646/">American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a> Foreign Honorary Member<br> <a href="/org/212/000165714/">Pontifical Academy of Sciences</a> <br> <a href="/group/738/000055573/">Manhattan Project</a> <br> <a href="/lists/481/000045346/">Jewish Ancestry</a> <br> <p> <b>Author of books:</b><br> <i>Rotational States of Atomic Nuclei</i> (<tt>1954</tt>, physics)<br><i>Nuclear Structure</i> (<tt>1969-75</tt>, physics, 2 volumes; with <a href="/people/898/000099601/">Ben R. 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