Aage Niels Bohr () (born
June 19 1922 in
Copenhagen) is a
Danish physicist and the son of Margrethe and
Niels Bohr. Growing up among
physicists like
Wolfgang Pauli and
Werner Heisenberg, he became a notable
nuclear physicist in his own right, being awarded the
Nobel Prize in Physics in
1975. In
1946, he became an associate at the
Niels Bohr Institute of
Theoretical Physics at the
University of Copenhagen. He served as the director of the institute from
1963 to
1970.
In
1948, Bohr worked with
Ben Mottelson and
Leo James Rainwater in
Copenhagen to summarize the current knowledge of nuclear structure in a
monograph. The first volume,
Single-Particle Motion, appeared in
1969, and the second volume,
Nuclear Deformations, in
1975. Their efforts on this project and their collaboration on nuclear theory led all three of them to receive the
1975 Nobel Prize in Physics, for research on the quantum mechanical description of
nucleons orbiting inside an oscillating rotating droplet.
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