Talk:Aage Bohr

Correct pronounciation?
At least we could get the correct pronounciation of this living subject's name! A biography of Oppenheimer I just read (American Prometheus) says Aage's first name is pronouced "Aw-ah". So the g would be as in the Spanish Agua. And that would (if I can figure it out) more or less agree with the IPA given in this Wiki. Except that several encyclopedia articles I can find on the net give the pronounciation of Aage Bohr's given name as "Ah-gah" with a hard g. So, is the g sounded, or not? Inquiring minds want to know! S B Harris 06:13, 5 February 2008 (UTC)


 * The g is not hard. I am not an expert on phonetics, but my best explanation of the pronounciation is this: The 'e' is silent, and the 'g' is a semivowel and sounds like 'w' in English 'cow' except that it forms a separate syllable, so your Oppenheimer-biography has it about right. The pronounciation with a hard g seems more Swedish than Danish to me. Hemmingsen 17:59, 5 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks. I'll go ahead and add that to the bio until I hear differently. BTW, there's such rich irony of history here. Neils Bohr did his Ph.D. on oscillations in liquid drops, then became famous for a semi-quantum model of the atom that wiped out the droplet-y plum pudding models. Then along come the next generation and describe the nuclear potential as a sort of short range force which results in something like a surface tension, and now again we're back to oscillating liquid drops. Pushed by Bohr's son and (among others) a native American named "Rainwater." If you wrote this as fiction, they'll call it transparent hack. S  B Harris 00:13, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

The pronounciation is still incorrect (AWE-ah). Native contemporary danish speakers would pronounce the name Aage as a prolonged O-oh (Not like, oh oh, something's wrong). The double "a" signifies the danish Å, having the sound of af glottaly stopped "Oh". G is soft, similar to, as mentioned, the g in spanish agua, and has the characteristics of a semi-wowel. 23:08, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Father son Nobel Laureates
There are six not four father son pairs of Nobel Laureates as listed on both wikipedia.org and nobelprize.org — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.203.148.224 (talk) 16:24, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
 * But only four won the Nobel Prize in Physics. The other were Hans von Euler-Chelpin (chemistry, 1929) and Ulf von Euler (medicine, 1970) and Arthur Kornberg (medicine, 1969) and Roger D. Kornberg (chemistry, 2006). Hawkeye7 (talk) 19:36, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

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