| Physicist,
born in Copenhagen, the son of Niels Bohr. He studied at the universities
of Copenhagen and London, and worked in his father's Institute of Theoretical
Physics in Copenhagen from 1946, becoming professor of physics at Copenhagen
(1956). He was director of the Institute (1963--70), and from 1975 to 1981
director of Nordita (Nordic Institute for Theoretical Atomic Physics).
With Ben Mottelson, he secured experimental evidence for the support of
Leo James Rainwater's collective model of the atomic nucleus, and shared
the Nobel Prize for Physics with them in 1975. |