Bohr, Christian

Niels Henrik David Bohr was born in Copenhagen, Denmark on October 7, 1885. Christian Bohr, his father, was a professor of physiology at the University of Copenhagen and his mother, Ellen Adler, came from a prominent Jewish family. Niels had one older sister, Jenny, and one younger brother, Harald. The family home was a place where Professor Bohr and his university col-... 

Di.scovcrcd by Christian Bohr, father of Nicl.s Bohr, the pioneer of quantum mechanics. Dickerson, R. E. Geis, I. The Sirticiiire and Action of ProU in.1 Harper Row New York, 1969 p 59 Hemoglobin Structure. Function, Evoiution, and Pathology Benjamin/Cummings Menlo Park. CA. 1983. Baldwin. J. Chothia. C. J. Mol. Biol. 1979, 129, 175. 

Medical University Vienna Max F. Perutz Laboratories Christian Doppler Laboratory for Infection Biology Dr. Bohr-Gasse 9/2 1030 Vienna... 

Discovered by Christian Bohr, father of Nids Bohr, the pioneer of quantum mechanics. 

The Danish physiologist Christian Bohr, father of nuclear physicist Niels Bohr, first observed that a decrease of stimulates the oxygenation of hemoglobin. This phenomenon is called the Bohr effect. 

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. 

Christian Bohr published his first scientific paper at twenty-two, took a medical degree and then a Ph.D. in physiology, studied under the distin-... 

As earnest of his commitment to female emancipation Christian Bohr taught review classes to prepare women for university study. One of his students was a Jewish banker s daughter, Ellen Adler. Her family was cultured, wealthy, prominent in Danish life her father was elected at various times to both the lower and upper houses of the Folketing, the Danish parliament. Christian Bohr courted her they were married in 1881. She had a lovable personality and great unselfishness, a friend of her sons would say. Apparently she submerged her Judaism after her marriage. Nor did she matriculate at the university as she must originally have planned. 

Christian and Ellen Bohr began married life in the Adler family townhouse that faced, across a wide street of ancient cobbles, Christian-borg Palace, the seat of the Folketing. Niels Bohr was bom in that favorable place on October 7, 1885, second child and first son. When his father accepted an appointment at the university in 1886 the Bohr family moved to a house beside the Surgical Academy, where the physiology laboratories were located. There Niels and his brother Harald, nineteen months younger, grew up. 

Harald Bohr was bright, witty, exuberant and assumed at first to be the smarter of the two brothers. At a very early stage, however, says Niels Bohr s later collaborator and biographer Stefan Rozental, Christian Bohr took the opposite view he realized Niels great abilities and special gifts and the extent of his imagination. The father phrased his realization in what would have been a cruel comparison if the brothers had been less devoted. Niels, he pronounced, was the special one in the family. ... 

Each separate experimental determination of the surface-tension value took hours. It had to be done at night, when the lab was unoccupied, because the jets were easily disturbed by vibration. Slow work, but Bohr also dawdled. The academy had allowed two years. Toward the end of that time Christian Bohr realized his son was procrastinating to the point where he might not finish his paper before the deadUne. The experiments had no end, Bohr told Rosenfeld some years later on a bicycle ride in the country I always noticed new details that I thought I had first to understand. At... 

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