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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 158,274 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Harald Bohr is the 152nd most popular mathematician (down from 146th in 2019), the 109th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 105th 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 152 out of 823. Before him are Felix Hausdorff, Stanislaw Ulam, Aleksandr Lyapunov, Jakob Steiner, Victor D'Hondt, and James Gregory. After him are Nicomachus, Hermann Grassmann, Zoia Ceaușescu, Gabriel Lamé, Paul Ehrenfest, and Ernst Zermelo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Harald Bohr ranks 47. Before him are Alexander Archipenko, Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick, Georg-Hans Reinhardt, Boris Karloff, Emilio Mola, and Ernst Hanfstaengl. After him are Violet Jessop, Frederick Fleet, Hans Oster, Heinrich von Vietinghoff, Avery Brundage, and Mitsuru Ushijima. Among people deceased in 1951, Harald Bohr ranks 23. Before him are Alfred Hugenberg, Sinclair Lewis, Paul Blobel, Amélie of Orléans, Oswald Pohl, and Zaifeng, Prince Chun. After him are William Randolph Hearst, Princess Milica of Montenegro, Ivanoe Bonomi, Charles G. Dawes, Óscar Carmona, and Robert J. Flaherty.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Harald Bohr ranks 109 out of 893. Before him are Princess Ingeborg of Denmark (1878), Absalon (1128), Jens Christian Skou (1918), Bille August (1948), Niels Gade (1817), and Hans Christian Gram (1853). After him are Sophia Brahe (1556), Nicolai Abildgaard (1743), Allan Simonsen (1952), Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark (1968), N. F. S. Grundtvig (1783), and Prince Valdemar of Denmark (1858).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Denmark

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

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