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Bohr, Aage Niels (ägə nēls bōr), 1922–, Danish physicist, Ph.D. Univ. of Copenhagen, 1954. He worked with his father Niels Bohr Harald August Bohr, 1887–1951, a mathematician, taught (1915–30) at the College of Technology in Copenhagen and in 1930 became professor at the Univ. of Copenhagen. His most noted contribution to mathematics was his formulation of the theory of almost periodic functions.
..... Click the link for more information. (who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922) in the 1940s on the development of the atomic bomb and succeeded (1963) him as director of the Niels Bohr Institute of Theoretical Physics. Bohr and colleague Benjamin Mottelson Mottelson, Benjamin Roy, 1926–, Danish physicist, b. Chicago, Ph.D. Harvard, 1950. Raised and educated in the United States, he moved to Denmark, where he began work as a nuclear physicist.
..... Click the link for more information. helped prove the theories of James Rainwater Rainwater, James, 1917–86, American physicist, Ph.D. Columbia, 1946. After working on the Manhattan Project as a student during World War II, he became a professor of physics at Columbia in 1952.
..... Click the link for more information. regarding the structure of atomic nuclei. The trio shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work.