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Aage Niels Bohr (213 words) |
 | Bohr was educated at the University of Copenhagen, where he received his doctorate in 1954. |
| During the 1940s he worked as assistant to his father, Niels Bohr (1922 Nobel physics laureate), on the development of the atomic bomb at Los Alamos, N.M. From 1946 he was associated with the Niels Bohr Institute of Theoretical Physics, founded in Copenhagen by his father, whom he succeeded as director from 1963 to 1970. |
| From experiments inspired by the theories of James Rainwater and conducted in collaboration with Ben R. Mottelson in the early 1950s, Bohr discovered that the motion of subatomic particles can distort the shape of the nucleus, thus challenging the widely accepted theory that all nuclei are perfectly spherical. |
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Aage Niels Bohr Summary (1025 words) |
| Bohr's father was director of the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen and instrumental in the development of the Manhattan Project (the U.S. secret program to build the atom bomb during World War II), which the younger Bohr also contributed to as his father's secretary and lab assistant. |
| Bohr's physics education was interrupted by the invasion of Denmark by German forces in 1940. |
| Aage Niels Bohr (born in Copenhagen, Denmark on June 19, 1922) is the son of Margrethe and Niels Bohr. |
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