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Harald August Bohr
Biography
Harald Bohr was a younger brother of Niels Bohr.Harald bohr biography of abraham lincoln for kids
Their father, Christian Bohr, was professor of physiology at the University of Copenhagen. Christian Bohr was famous for his work on the physical and chemical aspects of respiration. Harald and Niels Bohr's mother, Ellen Adler Bohr, came from a wealthy Jewish family with family members who were important in banking and in politics in Denmark.
Harald studied mathematics at the University of Copenhagen.
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He entered the University in 1904 and quickly became a well known Danish personality, not for his mathematics but rather for his soccer skills. He was in the Danish soccer team which was placed second in the 1908 Olympic games in London.
When his doctoral dissertation was examined at the University of Copenhagen, there were more soccer fans wishing to attend this public examination than there were mathematicians!
Mathematics soon became more important to Bohr than soccer and he became professor of m