Niels Henrik David Bohr was born on October 7, 1885, in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was the second of three children born to Christian and Ellen Adler Bohr. Bohr's early upbringing was enriched by a nurturing and supportive home atmosphere. His mother had come from a wealthy Jewish family involved in banking, government, and public service. Her father, D. B. Adler, had founded the Commercial Bank of Copenhagen and the Jutland Provincial Credit Association. Bohr's father was a professor of physiology at the University of Copenhagen. His closest friends met every Friday night to discuss events, so that, as a young boy, Bohr "learned much from listening to these conversations," according to J. Rud Nielsen in Physics Today.
Bohr became interested in science at an early age. His biographer, Ruth Moore, has written in her book Niels Bohr: The Man, His Science, and the World They Changed that as a child he "was already fixing the family clocks and anything else that needed repair." Bohr received his primary and secondary education at the Gammelholm School in Copenhagen.
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