BOHR, AAGE.

Rotational States of Atomic Nuclei.

København, Munksgaard, 1954.

Orig. printed wrappers. 55 pp.

First printing Aage Bohr's doctorial dissertation. Bohr became a professor at the University of Copenhagen in 1956, and, following his father's death in 1962, succeeded him as director of the Niels Bohr Institute, a position he held until 1970. As well as his father he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the connection between collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of the atomic nucleus based on this connection".

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