Aage Bohr is dead

Aage Bohr, son of Neils Bohr and a Nobel Laureate in his own right, just died at 87.

While growing up his family lived at the Copenhagen Institute for Theoretical Physics. That seems like a bit of an unfair advantage to me.

“The remarkable generation of scientists who came to join my father in his work became for us children Uncle Klein, Uncle Nishina, Uncle Heisenberg, Uncle Pauli,’’ he wrote in a reference to Oscar Klein of Sweden, Yoshio Nishina of Japan, Werner Karl Heisenberg of Germany, and Wolfgang Pauli of Austria.