Aage Bohr (born 19.06.1922) was a Danish theoretical physicist and a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters (1955). The son of N. Bohr. He was born in Copenhagen. He graduated from the University of Copenhagen (1946). In 1944—45 he worked at the Los Alamos laboratory. From 1946 he was at the Institute of Theoretical Physics and at the University of Copenhagen (professor from 1956). In 1962 — 70 he was director of the Niels Bohr Institute, and from 1975 of the Institute of Theoretical Nuclear Physics (NORDITA).
His research was in the field of the theory of the nucleus and of superconductivity. In 1950 — 52, together with
B. Mottelson, he developed the collective model of the nucleus (Nobel Prize, 1975). He constructed models of the transition state of a fissioning nucleus and of the fission channels of nuclei. In 1958, with B. Mottelson and D. Pines, he suggested the possible existence of a superfluidity of hadrons in nuclei (the superfluid model of the nucleus).
A member of a number of academies of sciences. The Atoms for Peace Award (1969), the H. Ørsted (1970) and E. Rutherford (1972) Medals and others.