The son of Niels Bohr, Aage Bohr was born in Copenhagen in 1922. He followed in his father's footsteps, attending the University of Copenhagen to study physics.In 1943, Niels Bohr had to flee Denmark to avoid arrest by the Nazis, and the whole family escaped to Sweden. After spending several years assisting his father with his work, Aage Bohr was able to return to Denmark in 1946 and completed a master's degree.
In 1948, Aage joined the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, and from there went to Columbia University, where he became interested in a newly discovered effect in the hyperfine structure of deuterium. He then returned to Copenhagen as a fellow of Niels Bohr Institute, and became professor of Copenhagen University in 1956. After the death of his father in 1962, Aage became the director of the Institute until 1970.
Working with Ben Roy Mottelson in Copenhagen, Aage Bohr summarized current knowledge of nuclear structure. Their efforts on this project and their collaboration on nuclear theory led them both to receive the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physics, which they shared with Leo James Rainwater, for research on the quantum mechanical description of nucleons orbiting inside a wobbly rotating droplet.
Information as of 1974