Bohr family


The Bohr family is a Danish family of scientists, scholars and amateur sportsmen.
Its most famous members are:
Other members include:
Niels received tremendous amounts of support from his family. Ellen, Margrethe, and Harald are all known to have scribed some of Niels Bohr's papers for him as he dictated. Among these were his dissertation and possibly his Nobel Prize essay.
Of Niels's sons, the oldest died in a boating accident in young adulthood and another died from childhood meningitis. The others went on to lead successful lives, including Aage Bohr, who became a very successful physicist and, like his father, was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 1975. His other sons were ; a physician, ; a chemical engineer; and Ernest, a lawyer.
Two of Aage's sons, Vilhelm and Tomas Bohr, are also academic researchers. Vilhelm is currently Senior Investigator in the Laboratory of Molecular Gerontology at the National Institutes of Health, working primarily on DNA repair. Tomas is a Professor of Physics at the Technical University of Denmark, working in the area of fluid dynamics, whose work recently helped disprove a report that a macroscopic fluid dynamic system can exhibit quantum-like behavior.

Sport

Niels and Harald played as footballers, and the two brothers played a number of amateur matches for the Copenhagen-based Akademisk Boldklub, with Niels in goal and Harald in defence. Harald went to play for Denmark at the Olympics. There is, however, no truth in the oft-repeated claim that Niels emulated Harald by playing for the Danish national team. Ernest Bohr was a 1948 Olympic field hockey player.