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Article: Nobel Winner In Physics Studied Atom
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- September 13, 2009
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Aage N. Bohr, 87, the son of Nobel Prize-winning Danish physicist
Niels Bohr, who joined his father in fleeing the Nazis during World
War II and later won his own Nobel Prize, died Sept. 8 in
Copenhagen. The cause of death was not reported.
Niels Bohr was a colossus of science, one of the creators of 20th-
century physics and a winner of the 1922 Nobel Prize, whose many
achievements included the so-called "liquid drop" model of the
nucleus of the atom. Aage Bohr and two colleagues won the Nobel more
than 50 years later for a new model of the nucleus, which reconciled
the liquid drop model and another model of the nucleus.
In addition to exploring the secrets of the atom and the
mysteries of ...