Harald Bohr | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Harald August Bohr 22 April 1887[1] Copenhagen, Denmark[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 22 January 1951 Gentofte, Denmark | (aged 63)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Resting place | Assistens Cemetery, Copenhagen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Danish | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alma mater | University of Copenhagen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Occupation | Mathematician | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Parent(s) | Christian and Ellen Bohr[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Relatives | Niels Bohr (brother) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Harald August Bohr (22 April 1887 – 22 January 1951) was a Danish mathematician and footballer. After receiving his doctorate in 1910, Bohr became an eminent mathematician, founding the field of almost periodic functions. His brother was the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr. He was on the Denmark national team for the 1908 Summer Olympics, where he won a silver medal.[2]