Aage Bohr
Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
Born
June 19th, 1922
103 years ago
Died
September 8th, 2009
15 years ago — 87 years old
Category
Scientists & Innovators
Country
Denmark
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Nobel Prize in Physics, 1975
Contributions to the collective model of nuclear structure
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