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Aage Bohr

1922 - 2009

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Aage Niels Bohr (Danish: [ˈɔːwə ˈne̝ls ˈpoɐ̯ˀ] ; 19 June 1922 – 8 September 2009) was a Danish nuclear physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1975 with Ben Roy Mottelson and James Rainwater "for the discovery of the connection between collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of the atomic nucleus based on this connection". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aage Bohr has received more than 643,137 page views. His biography is available in 76 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 68 in 2019). Aage Bohr is the 96th most popular physicist (up from 116th in 2019), the 46th most popular biography from Denmark (up from 58th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Danish Physicist.

Aage Bohr was a Danish physicist who is most famous for the Bohr model of the atom.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Aage Bohr ranks 96 out of 851. Before him are Wilhelm Eduard Weber, Ernst Ruska, Leo Szilard, Peter Higgs, Emil Lenz, and Gustaf Dalén. After him are William Rowan Hamilton, George Gamow, Owen Willans Richardson, Edward Victor Appleton, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, and Dennis Gabor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Aage Bohr ranks 20. Before him are Gérard Philipe, Ava Gardner, Erving Goffman, Liliane Bettencourt, Emil Zátopek, and Hiroo Onoda. After him are Kurt Vonnegut, Jack Kerouac, Imre Lakatos, Philip Larkin, Vittorio Gassman, and Alain Resnais. Among people deceased in 2009, Aage Bohr ranks 9. Before him are Claude Lévi-Strauss, Kim Dae-jung, Millvina Dean, Corazon Aquino, Paul Samuelson, and Roh Moo-hyun. After him are Omar Bongo, Pina Bausch, Maurice Jarre, David Carradine, Farrah Fawcett, and Abdurrahman Wahid.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Aage Bohr ranks 46 out of 1,032. Before him are Victor Borge (1909), Christian VI of Denmark (1699), Henrik Dam (1895), Saxo Grammaticus (1150), Frederick II of Denmark (1534), and Frederick I of Denmark (1471). After him are Sveinn Björnsson (1881), Frederick IV of Denmark (1671), Fredrik Bajer (1837), Ubba (1000), Harald Bluetooth (935), and Lili Elbe (1882).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Denmark

Among physicists born in Denmark, Aage Bohr ranks 3. Before him are Hans Christian Ørsted (1777), and Niels Bohr (1885). After him are Ludvig Lorenz (1829), Ole Worm (1588), Martin Knudsen (1871), Henrik Svensmark (1958), and Lene Hau (1959).

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