Prof. Niels Bohr, Danish nuclear physicist whose mother was Jewish and who was forced to flee to Sweden when the Nazis occupied Denmark, was named the first winner yesterday of the $75,000 Atoms for Peace Award established by the Ford Foundation.
The nuclear physicist participated in the development of the nuclear fission theory which is the basis of atomic energy work while he was associated with the late Dr. Albert Einstein at Princeton University.
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