Aage Bohr
Danish physicist (1922-2009) · Denmark · Scientists · Died at 87
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Something wrong?He won the Nobel for cracking how atomic nuclei actually move - and did it alongside the son-of-a-laureate weight of his father having taken the same prize the year he was born.
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Aage Niels Bohr was born in Copenhagen on 19 June 1922, the son of Niels Bohr, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics that same year. Working from James Rainwater's concept of an irregular-shaped liquid drop model of the nucleus, Bohr and Ben Roy Mottelson built out a detailed theory linking collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei - work that matched experimental results with rare precision. In 1975, the three shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery and the theory of nuclear structure it enabled. Bohr died on 8 September 2009, one half of a father-son Nobel pair separated by fifty-three years.
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Pyotr KapitsaBoth received Rutherford Medal and Prize
Murray Gell-MannBoth received Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics
Gerard 't HooftBoth received Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics
John Douglas CockcroftBoth received Rutherford Medal and Prize
Lene V. HauBoth received Ole Rømer Medal
Morten P. MeldalBoth received H. C. Ørsted Gold MedalFame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.