14/11/2018
On this photograph, you may see Niels Bohr (left) – Danish theoretical physicist and winner of the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics – along with his son Aage Bohr (center) – nuclear physicist and winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physics – and his grandson Tomas Bohr (bottom) – currently Professor of Physics at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU).
Niels Bohr proposed the idea of electron shells and quantized energy levels. This led to the award of the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics. Aage Bohr shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on quantum mechanical descriptions of nuclear deformations. From 1946, father and son worked together at the Niels Bohr Institute (NBI) at the University of Copenhagen, with Aage taking over as director after his father's death.
Tomas Bohr is currently Professor of Physics at DTU, working in the area of fluid dynamics, whose work recently helped disprove a report that a macroscopic fluid dynamic system can exhibit quantum-like behavior. He is one of the leading experts in physics of complex systems and was one of the initiators behind Center for Chaos and Turbulence Studies (CATS) at NBI and DTU.