| Christian Bohr | |
|---|---|
| Born | Christian Harald Lauritz Peter Emil Bohr[1] February 14, 1855 Copenhagen |
| Died | February 3, 1911 (aged 55) Copenhagen |
| Education | Medical degree, Doctorate in physiology |
| Occupation | Professor at University of Copenhagen |
| Known for | Physiology research |
| Home town | Copenhagen |
| Children | Jenny Bohr (1883–1933)[2] Niels Bohr (1885–1962) Harald Bohr (1887–1951) |
| Parents | Henrik Georg Christian Bohr, Caroline Agusta Lovise Rienestad |
Christian Harald Lauritz Peter Emil Bohr (1855–1911, both in Copenhagen) was a Danish physician, father of the physicist and Nobel laureate Niels Bohr, as well as the mathematician Harald Bohr and grandfather of another physicist and nobel laureate Aage Bohr. He married Ellen Adler in 1881.
He wrote his first scientific paper, "Om salicylsyrens indflydelse på kødfordøjelsen" ("On salicylic acid's influence on the digestion of meat"), at the age of 22. He received his medical degree in 1880, studied under Carl Ludwig at University of Leipzig, took a Ph.D. in physiology and was appointed professor of physiology at the University of Copenhagen in 1886.[3]
Christian Bohr is buried in the Assistens Kirkegård.
In 1891, he was the first to characterize dead space.[4][5]
In 1903, Christian Bohr described the phenomenon, now called the Bohr effect, whereby hydrogen ions and carbon dioxide heterotopically 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.