Christian Bohr
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Christian Bohr (1855-1911) was the father of the famous Danish physicist Niels Bohr, as well as the famous mathematician Harald Bohr.
He wrote his first scientific paper, "Om salicylsyrens indflydelse på kødfordøjelsen", at the age of 22. He received his medical degree in 1880, and was appointed professor of physiology at the University of Copenhagen in 1886.
Christian married Ellen Adler in 1881.
In 1904, Christian Bohr described the phenomenon, now called the Bohr effect, whereby hydrogen ions and carbon dioxide heterotropically decrease hemoglobin's oxygen binding affinity. This regulation increases the efficiency of oxygen release by hemoglobin in tissues, like active muscle tissue, where rapid metabolization has produced relatively high concentrations of hydrogen ions and carbon dioxide.
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