Christian Harald Lauritz Peter Emil Bohr (1855–1911) was a Danish physician, father of the

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and

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Niels Bohr Niels Henrik David Bohr (; 7 October 1885 – 18 November 1962) was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922 ...

, as well as the mathematician and football player

Harald Bohr Harald August Bohr (22 April 1887 – 22 January 1951) was a Danish mathematician and footballer. After receiving his doctorate in 1910, Bohr became an eminent mathematician, founding the field of almost periodic functions. His brother was the ...

and grandfather of another

and Nobel laureate

Aage Bohr Aage Niels Bohr (; 19 June 1922 – 8 September 2009) was a Danish nuclear physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1975 with Ben Roy Mottelson and James Rainwater "for the discovery of the connection between collective motion and pa ...

. He married Ellen Adler in 1881.

Personal life

He wrote his first scientific paper, "Om salicylsyrens indflydelse på kødfordøjelsen" ("On

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's influence on the digestion of meat"), at the age of 22. He received his medical degree in 1880, studied under

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, took a Ph.D. in

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and was appointed professor of physiology at the

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in 1886. On his religious views, Bohr was raised as a

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. He was an atheist in later life. Christian Bohr is buried in the Assistens Kirkegård.

Physiology

In 1891, he was the first to characterize

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.article
/ref> In 1904, Christian Bohr described the phenomenon, now called the

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, whereby

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ions and

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heterotopically decrease

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's oxygen-binding affinity. This regulation increases the efficiency of oxygen release by hemoglobin in tissues, like active muscle tissue, where rapid metabolization has produced relatively high concentrations of hydrogen ions and

References

Sources

*Fredericia, L.S. (1932) Christian Bohr, pp. 173–176 in: Meisen, V. Prominent Danish Scientists through the Ages. University Library of Copenhagen 450th Anniversary. Levin & Munksgaard, Copenhagen. {{DEFAULTSORT:Bohr, Christian 1855 births 1911 deaths Danish atheists Danish scientists Danish physiologists University of Copenhagen faculty Science teachers Scientists from Copenhagen Niels Bohr Rectors of the University of Copenhagen

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Former Lutherans