| Niels Bohr  AKA Niels Henrik David Bohr
Born: 7-Oct-1885
Birthplace: Copenhagen, Denmark
Died: 18-Nov-1962
Location of death: Copenhagen, Denmark
Cause of death: Stroke
Remains: Buried, Copenhagen, Denmark
Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: Denmark
Executive summary: Father of Quantum Theory Father: Christian Bohr (lecturer in physiology)
Mother: Ellen Adler Bohr (Jewish)
Sister: Jenny (b. 1883)
Brother: Harald Bohr (mathematician)
Wife: Margrethe Norlund (m. 1-Aug-1912)
Son: Aage N. Bohr (physicist and Nobel Laureate)
High School: Grammelholms School (1903)
University: MA, University of Copenhagen (1909)
University: PhD, University of Copenhagen (1911)
Teacher: Lecturer, University of Copenhagen (1913-14)
Teacher: Lecturer, Victoria University of Manchester (1914-16)
Professor: Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Copenhagen (1916-62)
Nobel Prize for Physics 1922
Hughes Medal 1921
Matteucci Medal 1923
Copley Medal 1938
American Academy of Arts and Sciences Foreign Honorary Member
American Philosophical Society 1940
Pontifical Academy of Sciences
Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellow (1927)
Manhattan Project
Chemical Element Namesake bohrium (Bh, 107)
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