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Margrethe Nørlund Bohr (7 March 1890 – 21 December 1984) was the Danish wife of and collaborator, editor and transcriber for physicist Niels Bohr who received the Nobel Prize. She also influenced her son, Nobel Prize winner Aage Bohr.
The correspondence brings new understanding to the origins of Bohr’s atomic model and presages the role that Margrethe was going to play throughout Bohr’s life. Key words: Niels Bohr; Margrethe Nørlund; Harald Bohr; correspondence; Bohr atomic model; scientific creativity; literature; spouses. * Niels Bohr Archive, Blegdamsvej 17, DK-2100 ...
Niels married Margrethe Nørlund Bohr, an editor and transcriber, and sister to Niels Erik Nørlund, a mathematician. Niels had 6 children, all sons. The oldest, Christian Bohr, died in a boating accident in 1934, and another, Harald, was severely mentally disabled, died at the age of about 10/11.
By Savannah Gignac, Assistant Photo Librarian. In August of 1910, Niels Bohr proposed marriage to Margrethe Nørlund. After completing his doctoral work in 1911, Bohr went to Cambridge and Manchester to continue his studies with J.J. Thomson and Ernest Rutherford.
In 1903, Niels Bohr began to study at the University of Copenhagen. In 1911, he received his doctorate and in the same year was engaged to Margrethe Nørlund.
5 de jun. de 2013 · In the autumn of 1911, the Danish physicist Niels Bohr set sail for a postdoctoral year in England inflamed with “all my stupid wild courage”, as he expressed his state of mind in a letter to his...
27 de ene. de 2014 · The attentive audience of 92 was treated to insights from Vilhelm Bohr’s childhood experiences with his remarkable grandfather and especially with his grandmother, Margrethe (Nørlund) Bohr. Physics runs in the Bohr family. Niels Bohr famously proposed his atomic model 101 years ago in 1913.
