Bohr, Aage Niels

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. 

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. 

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... 

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. 

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

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