Harald bohr biography of donald
Summary: Niels Bohr is best known for the investigations of atomic structure and also for work on radiation, which won him the Nobel Prize for physics.
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Bohr, Harald
(b. Copenhagen, Denmark, 22 April 1887; d. Copenhagen, 22 January 1951)
mathematics.
Bohr’s father was the distinguished physiologist Christian Bohr; his mother, a daughter of the prominent financier, politician, and philanthropist D.
B. Adler.
The aim of the book was to convey to wider circles an impression of the significance of Bohr's work, not only for our knowledge of the atomic world.In the home he and his elder brother Niels imbibed a deep love of science. At the age of seventeen Bohr entered the University of Copenhagen. Of his teachers, he felt the closest kinship to H. G. Zeuthen, but the most decisive factor in his development as a mathematician was his study of Jordan’s Cours d’analyse and Dirichlet’s Vorlesungen über Zahlentheorie with Dedekind’s supplements.
In his later student years, his interests centered on analysis.
His brother was Harald Bohr, a mathematician and Olympic soccer player who played on the Danish national team.
After his master’s examination he went to study with Landau in Göttingen. This center of mathematics became like a second home to Bohr, and he returned there often. During the years before World War I, he also came into close contact with Hardy and Littlewood, and he oft