Bohr, Aage

SU(3) symmetry in hypernuclear physics Radicati, Wigner s supermul-tiplet theory100 Fraunfelder, Parity and Time Reversal in Nuclear Physics Wilkinson, the isobaric analogue symmetry Aage Bohr, the permutation group in light nuclei and J. P. Elliot, the shell model symmetry. 

Niels Bohr was one of the founders of modern atomic and nuclear physics. He was born into a family of intellectual and academic distinction. His father, Christian Bohr (1855-1911), was a professor of physiology his brother, Harald Bohr (1887-1951), was a professor of mathematics and his son, Aage Bohr (b. 1922), a professor of physics—all of them at the University of Copenhagen. 

Aage N. Bohr, Ben R. Mottelson, James Rainwater 1920 Charles Edouard Guillaume... 

Thus Heisenberg s version of the evening walk. Bohr s is less detailed. His son Aage, a Nobel laureate in his turn and his father s successor as director of the Copenhagen institute, summarizes it in a memoir ... 

The Royal Air Force was not used to such great heads as Bohr s, says Robert Oppenheimer wryly. Aage Bohr describes the near-disaster ... 

He was willing to be impressed by a mighty progress of industry. The work on atomic energy in the USA and in England proved to have advanced much further than my father had expected, Aage Bohr understates. Robert Oppenheimer pitches his summary closer to the shock of surprise a refugee released from the suspended animation that had been occupied Denmark would have felt To Bohr the enterprises in the United States seemed completely fantastic. ... 

Niels Bohr and his son Aage followed next as consultant to the Tube Alloys directorate and junior scientiflc officer, respectively the British were paying their salaries. Groves security men met father and son at dockside, assigned them cover names—Nicholas and James Baker— and spirited them off to a hotel, there to discover niels bohr stenciled bold and black on the Danish laureate s luggage. At Los Alamos, warmly welcomed, Nicholas and James Baker became Uncle Nick and Jim... 

At the end of March 1944, Bohr seemingly had a mandate from the President of the United States to talk to the Prime Minister of Great Britain. The British in whom Bohr had been confiding were properly impressed. Hahfax considered this development to be so important, writes Aage Bohr, that he thought my father should go to London immediately. Father and son crossed the Atlantic again, this time by military aircraft, in early April. 

We came to London full of hopes and expectations, Aage Bohr remembers. It was, of course, a rather novel situation that a scientist should thus try to intervene in world politics, but it was hoped that Churchill, who possessed such imagination and who had often shown such great vision, would be inspired by the new prospects. Niels Bohr cherished that hope. His British friends had not prepared him. 

Bohr got only the bare thirty minutes of his scheduled appointment, most of which Churchill had monopolized. As he was leaving, Aage Bohr concludes, my father asked for permission to write Churchill, whereupon the latter answered, It will be an honour for me to receive a letter from you, adding, but not about politics ... 

The Bohrs turned to the task as Washington steamed, the last days of June and the first days of July dawning in the high eighties and sweltering above 100° by afternoon. Aage Bohr recalls the document s preparation ... 

Peterson, Aage. 1963. The philosophy of Niels Bohr. Bui. Atom. Sci. Sept. 

Danish physicist Aage Bohr (1922- ) and US physicists Benjamin Mottelson (1926- ) and Leo Rainwater (1917-86) combine the liquid-drop and shell models of the nucleus into a single theory. 

Niels Bohr was awarded the 1922 Nobel Prize in physics for his explanation of the structure of the atom. His son, Aage Niels Bohr, shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in physics for his explanation of the structure of the nucleus. 

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