The Bohr family is a Danish family of scientists, scholars and amateur sportsmen.
Its most famous members are:
Other members include:
Of Niels's sons, the oldest (also named Christian) died in a boating accident in young adulthood and another died from childhood meningitis. The others went on to lead successful lives, including Aage Bohr, who became a very successful physicist and, like his father, was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 1975. His other sons were Hans Henrik; a physician, Erik; a chemical engineer; and Ernest, a lawyer.
Two of Aage's sons, Vilhelm and Tomas Bohr, are also academic researchers. Tomas is a Professor of Physics at the Technical University of Denmark, working in the area of fluid dynamics, while Vilhelm is a molecular biologist. Their two cousins, Jakob and Henrik Bohr, are also professors at the Technical University of Denmark. Jakob at DTU Nanotech, and Henrik also in the Physics Institute and Director of the Quantum Protein (QuP) Center.
Sport
Niels and Harald played as footballers, and the two brothers played a number of amateur matches for the Copenhagen-based Akademisk Boldklub, with Niels in goal and Harald in defence. Harald went to play for Denmark at the Olympics. There is, however, no truth in the oft-repeated claim that Niels emulated Harald by playing for the Danish national team. Ernest was a 1948 Olympic field hockey player.