Correspondence of other family members with Niels Bohr, among themselves and with others. The material includes: correspondence between Niels Bohr and his wife Margrethe; a very scanty correspondence of Bohr's father, physiologist Christian Bohr (1855-1911), e.g. with his teacher Carl Ludwig in Germany; family correspondence of Bohr's wife, Margrethe, (especially with her mother, Sophie Nørlund (1862-1926)), and of Bohr's mother, Ellen née Adler (1860-1930); letters of Bohr's sister, Jenny; correspondence of Paula Strelitz, cousin of Bohr's mother and sometime director of the journal branch of the Springer press; correspondence of Bohr's maternal aunt, the educator Hanna Adler (1959-1947), e.g. in relation to her journey in 1893-1894 to survey U.S. education; scientific correspondence of Kirstine Meyer née Bjerrum, (1861-1941) about her research in history of science, primarily Ole Rømer, astronomer, (1644-1710) and his invention of the thermometer as well as her edition of the collected works of Hans Christian Ørsted, physicist (1777-1851) (Meyer who was not related to Bohr, was together with Hanna Adler among the first Danish women to obtain a PhD in physics and pursued a succesful career as writer and educator); and letters of numerous other relatives.
12 boxes. Alphabetical, chronological. Danish, English, German. Closed