AKA Niels Henrik David Bohr

Born: 7-Oct-1885
Birthplace: Copenhagen, Denmark
Died: 18-Nov-1962
Location of death: Copenhagen, Denmark
Cause of death: Stroke
Remains: Buried, Copenhagen, Denmark

Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist

Nationality: Denmark
Executive summary: Father of Quantum Theory

Father: Christian Bohr (lecturer in physiology)
Mother: Ellen Adler Bohr (Jewish)
Sister: Jenny (b. 1883)
Brother: Harald Bohr (mathematician)
Wife: Margrethe Norlund (m. 1-Aug-1912)
Son: Aage N. Bohr (physicist and Nobel Laureate)

    High School: Grammelholms School (1903)
    University: MA, University of Copenhagen (1909)
    University: PhD, University of Copenhagen (1911)
    Teacher: Lecturer, University of Copenhagen (1913-14)
    Teacher: Lecturer, Victoria University of Manchester (1914-16)
    Professor: Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Copenhagen (1916-62)

    Nobel Prize for Physics 1922
    Hughes Medal 1921
    Matteucci Medal 1923
    Copley Medal 1938
    American Academy of Arts and Sciences Foreign Honorary Member
    American Philosophical Society 1940
    Pontifical Academy of Sciences
    Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellow (1927)
    Manhattan Project
    Chemical Element Namesake bohrium (Bh, 107)

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