# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/holger-bech-nielsen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:05:25.304Z

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name: "Holger Bech Nielsen"
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description: "Holger Bech Nielsen is a Danish theoretical physicist and professor emeritus at the Niels Bohr Institute, at the University of Copenhagen, where he started studying physics in 1961."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump