19 Facts About Aage Bohr

Aage Bohr went to high school at Sortedam Gymnasium in Copenhagen.

Aage Bohr assisted his father, helping draft correspondence and articles related to epistemology and physics.

Aage Bohr arrived there in October 1943, and then flew to Britain on a de Havilland Mosquito operated by British Overseas Airways Corporation.

Aage Bohr, equipped with parachute, flying suit and oxygen mask, spent the three-hour flight lying on a mattress in the aircraft's bomb bay.

Aage Bohr officially became a junior researcher at the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, but actually served as personal assistant and secretary to his father.

In early 1948, Aage Bohr became a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

Aage Bohr discussed the idea with Bohr, who was visiting Columbia at the time, and had independently conceived the same idea, and had, about a month after Rainwater's submission, submitted for publication a paper that discussed the same problem, but along more general lines.

Aage Bohr imagined a rotating, irregular-shaped nucleus with a form of surface tension.

Aage Bohr developed the idea further, in 1951 publishing a paper that comprehensively treated the relationship between oscillations of the surface of the nucleus and the movement of the individual nucleons.

Only after doing his Nobel Prize-winning research did Aage Bohr receive his doctorate from the University of Copenhagen, in 1954, writing his thesis on "Rotational States of Atomic Nuclei".

Aage Bohr became a professor at the University of Copenhagen in 1956, and, following his father's death in 1962, succeeded him as director of the Niels Aage Bohr Institute, a position he held until 1970.

Aage Bohr remained active there until he retired in 1992.

Aage Bohr was a member of the board of the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics from its inception in 1957, and was its director from 1975 to 1981.

In 1972 Aage Bohr was awarded an honorary degree, doctor philos.

Aage Bohr was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1980.

Aage Bohr was an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the United States National Academy of Sciences.

In 1981, Aage Bohr became a founding member of the World Cultural Council.

Aage Bohr's son, Tomas Bohr, is a professor of physics at the Technical University of Denmark, working in the area of fluid dynamics.

Aage Bohr was survived by his second wife and children.