Christian Bohr

Christian Harald Lauritz Peter Emil Bohr ( born February 14, 1855 in Copenhagen, † February 3, 1911 ) was a Danish physiologist. According to him, the Bohr effect, which he discovered in 1904, named. His most famous son was the physicist and Nobel laureate Niels Bohr, his son Harald was a mathematician. Bohr was married to Ellen Adler since 1881. His grandson Aage Niels Bohr received the Nobel Prize for Physics.

After studying medicine at the University of Copenhagen from 1872 to 1878 and an assistant, Carl Ludwig in Leipzig in 1881, he was appointed in 1886 as professor of physiology at the University of Copenhagen. In the academic year 1905/ 06 he served as rector of the university. Since 1888 he was elected member of the Scholars Academy Leopoldina.

• Physiologist
• Physician (19th century)
• Physician ( 20th century )
• University teachers (University of Copenhagen)
• Rector (University of Copenhagen)
• Member of the Leopoldina (19th Century )
• Niels Bohr
• Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences
• Dane
• Born in 1855
• Died in 1911
• Man