A talented family..........Niels played at an academic club in soccer........goalkeeper.........his brother was good enough to play for Denmark in the Olympics...........

Early years[edit]

Niels Bohr was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 7 October 1885, the second of three children of Christian Bohr,^[3][4] a professor of physiology at the University of Copenhagen, and Ellen Adler Bohr, who came from a wealthy Danish Jewish family prominent in banking and parliamentary circles.^[5] He had an elder sister, Jenny, and a younger brother Harald.^[3] Jenny became a teacher,^[4] while Harald became a mathematician and Olympic footballer who played for the Danish national team at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London. Niels was a passionate footballer as well, and the two brothers played several matches for the Copenhagen-basedAkademisk Boldklub (Academic Football Club), with Niels as goalkeeper.^[6]