Aage Niels Bohr (; 19 June 1922 – 9 September 2009) was a Danish
nuclear physicist who shared the
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1975 with
Ben Mottelson and
James Rainwater "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". Starting from Rainwater's concept of an irregular-shaped liquid drop model of the nucleus, Bohr and Mottelson developed a detailed theory that was in close agreement with experiments. Since his father,
Niels Bohr, had won the prize in 1922, he and his father were one of the six pairs of fathers and sons who have both won the Nobel Prize and one of the four pairs who have both won the Nobel Prize in Physics.