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Article: Aage Bohr; physics professor received Nobel prize; at 87
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 11, 2009
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COPENHAGEN - Aage Bohr, a nuclear physics professor and Nobel
laureate like his father, has died. He was 87.
Mr. Bohr received the Nobel Prize for physics in 1975. His
father, Niels Bohr, who was a colleague and close friend of Albert
Einstein, received the Nobel Prize in physics for nuclear research
in 1922.
The institute named after his father and where Aage Bohr was a
professor of physics said yesterday that Mr. Bohr died Tuesday. A
funeral will take place Monday, his family said.
Born a few months before his father received his Nobel Prize,
Aage Niels Bohr grew up among nuclear physics specialists because
the family lived at the Copenhagen Institute for Theoretical
Physics, now known as ...