Bohr (bôr, b r), Niels Henrik David 1885-1962. Danish physicist. He won a 1922 Nobel Prize for investigating atomic structure and radiations. His son Aage Niels Bohr (born 1922), also a physicist, shared a 1975 Nobel Prize for discovering the asymmetry of atomic nuclei. |
Bohr [bɔː (Danish) boːr]
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1. (Biographies / Bohr, Aage Niels (1922 M, Danish, SCIENCE: physicist) Aage Niels (ˈɔgə neːls). born 1922, Danish physicist, noted for his work on nuclear structure. He shared the Nobel prize for physics 1975
2. (Biographies / Bohr, Niels (Henrik David) (1885-1962) M, Danish, SCIENCE: physicist) his father, Niels (Henrik David). 1885-1962, Danish physicist, who applied the quantum theory to Rutherford's model of the atom to explain spectral lines: Nobel prize for physics 1922
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| Noun | 1. | Bohr - Danish physicist who studied atomic structure and radiations; the Bohr theory of the atom accounted for the spectrum of hydrogen (1885-1962) |
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