*The Family of Niels Bohr

Bohr was born on October 7, 1885 in Copenhagen, Denmark. His father was Christian Bohr who had a doctoratde in physiology from the University of Copenhagen. Late in the year of 1881 Christian Bohr married Ellen Adler, the daughter of David Adler, a Jewish politician. Niels Bohr was the the second of three children. He had an older sister named Jenny, born in 1883 and a young brother named Harald, who was a famous mathematician. [2]

This information was obtaned at www.-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Bohr_Niels.html