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Article: Son of famed physicist left his own mark on science.(Local)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- September 12, 2009
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By Kenneth Chang
The New York Times
Aage N. Bohr, a son of the Nobel Prize-winning nuclear physicist Niels Bohr who won a Nobel Prize of his own, died Tuesday. He was 87.
Niels Bohr was one of the giants of physics in the early 20th century . Aage Bohr's childhood was one in which a pantheon of pre-eminent physicists were friends visiting the family home.
In research in the 1950s, the younger Bohr, in collaboration with Ben Mottelson, explained how the rotational motion of protons and neutrons inside the nucleus of an atom could distort the shape of the nucleus.
Their findings proved important in the development of human-made ...