MATHEMATICIAN

Harald Bohr

1887 - 1951

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Harald August Bohr (22 April 1887 – 22 January 1951) was a Danish mathematician and footballer. After receiving his doctorate in 1910, Bohr became an eminent mathematician, founding the field of almost periodic functions. His brother was the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harald Bohr has received more than 170,255 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Harald Bohr is the 141st most popular mathematician (up from 152nd in 2019), the 102nd most popular biography from Denmark (up from 108th in 2019) and the most popular Danish Mathematician.

Harald Bohr is most famous for his work on atomic theory. He was the first to propose that electrons orbit the nucleus in quantized orbits. He also proposed that electrons only have a certain amount of energy that they can absorb or emit, which is called the Bohr model.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Harald Bohr ranks 141 out of 1,004. Before him are Sophus Lie, Mikhail Ostrogradsky, Oliver Heaviside, Ernst Kummer, William Oughtred, and Vincenzo Viviani. After him are Andrew Wiles, Mary Jackson, Johannes Trithemius, Émile Borel, Henri Lebesgue, and Zoia Ceaușescu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Harald Bohr ranks 42. Before him are Kurt Schwitters, John Reed, James Paul Moody, Emilio Mola, Alexander Archipenko, and René Cassin. After him are Julian Huxley, Luís Filipe, Prince Royal of Portugal, Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick, Heinrich von Vietinghoff, Mitsuru Ushijima, and Hans Oster. Among people deceased in 1951, Harald Bohr ranks 20. Before him are Otto Ohlendorf, Alfred Hugenberg, Maxim Litvinov, Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland, Sinclair Lewis, and Amélie of Orléans. After him are Zaifeng, Prince Chun, Paul Blobel, Ivanoe Bonomi, Óscar Carmona, Oswald Pohl, and William Randolph Hearst.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Harald Bohr ranks 102 out of 1,032. Before him are Niels Gade (1817), Eric III of Denmark (1100), Maximilian von Spee (1861), Christian Jürgensen Thomsen (1788), Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark (1753), and N. F. S. Grundtvig (1783). After him are Princess Thyra of Denmark (1853), Jens Peter Jacobsen (1847), Eric II of Denmark (1090), Bille August (1948), Hans Christian Gram (1853), and Brigitte Nielsen (1963).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Denmark

Among mathematicians born in Denmark, Harald Bohr ranks 1. After him are Piet Hein (1905), Agner Krarup Erlang (1878), Julius Petersen (1839), Georg Mohr (1640), Johan Jensen (1859), Jørgen Pedersen Gram (1850), and Poul Heegaard (1871).

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