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{{short description|Danish lawyer (1924–2018)}}
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'''Ernest David Bohr''' (7 March 1924 – 26 February 2018)<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.nbarchive.dk/news/ernest_bohr_obituary/ |title=Ernest Bohr (1924–2018) |date=28 February 2018 |website=www.nbarchive.dk |language=en |access-date=4 June 2018}}</ref> was a Danish lawyer and [[field hockey]] player who played for Denmark in the [[1948 Summer Olympics]] in [[London]].
==Biography==
Bohr was born in [[Frederiksberg]], Denmark on 7 March 1924,<ref name="hockey"/> the son of [[Association football|football]] player and [[physicist]] [[Niels Bohr]] and [[Margrethe Bohr|Margrethe Nørlund]]. He graduated from Sortedam High School and later became a barrister. He was named after the New Zealand physicist [[Ernest Rutherford]], who was a friend of Niels, and after Niels' maternal grandfather.{{sfn|Pais|1991|p=249}} He was the brother of physicist [[Aage Bohr]],{{sfn|Pais|1991|p=249}} and the nephew of mathematician [[Harald Bohr]], who played for the Danish silver medal-winning team in football at the [[1908 Summer Olympics]], which were also held in London. He played Hockey for Orient in Lyngby, Kongens Lyngby, and Lyngby-Taarbæk.<ref name="hockey">{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/bo/ernest-bohr-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418093355/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/bo/ernest-bohr-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Ernest Bohr Biography and Olympic Results - Olympics |publisher=Sports-Reference.com |access-date=12 February 2013}}</ref>
After the German [[occupation of Denmark]], the Bohr family elected to remain in the country despite the fact that the Nazis considered some family members as Jews because Ernest's grandmother Ellen Adler was Jewish. Niels believed he could do the most good by staying in Denmark, but in September 1943 he received word that he would be arrested and brought to Germany.  The family then fled to [[Sweden]].  Margrethe  and the three younger boys remained in Sweden until the war was over.{{sfn|Rhodes|1986|pp=482-483}}
Bohr played [[field hockey]] for Denmark in the [[1948 Summer Olympics]] in [[London]]. The competition consisted of a group stage in which three groups played each other in round robin fashion, with the top team on Groups A and B and the top two teams in Group C advancing to the semi-finals. Bohr played in two games. In the first game, at [[The Polytechnic Stadium]] at [[Chiswick]] on 3 August 1948, the Danish team played Pakistan, one of the strongest teams, and was badly beaten, 9-0.  In Denmark's next game, on 5 August at the same ground, the team did better against Belgium, fighting back from being 2-0 at half time to lose 2-1. The Danish team came 13th in the completion, drawing its game against France and losing its other three games, and came bottom of Group C. It did not advance to the semi-finals.<ref name="hockey"/>{{sfn|London|1948|pp=406-411}}
After returning to Denmark, Bohr qualified as a lawyer in 1949. He married Else Richter, a fellow lawyer, on 7 January 1950.<ref name="Kraks Blå Bog"/> <!-- Else became a judge in 1977. They had four children.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ammentorp.org/genealogy/wc01/wc01_039.htm |title=Ernest David Bohr (Living, Male) & Else Richter (Living, Female) |publisher=Martin Ammentorp |accessdate=12 February 2012}}</ref> --> Bohr was Chairman of the Board of joint stock companies Wiltax, Slagelse Dampmølle, and Øxenbjerg Dampmølle og Toldbodmøl, and a board member of A/S Møller & Landschultz and Juliet Fond.<ref name="Kraks Blå Bog">{{cite web|title=Bohr, Ernest |url=http://www.rosekamp.dk/kbb_74_ALL/B.htm |work=[[Kraks Blå Bog]] |year=1974 |publisher=Krak |language=Danish |access-date=28 February 2013 }}</ref>
==Olympic results==
{| class="wikitable"
|+Men's Hockey - Group C, London 1948
!bgcolor="#efefef"|Rank
!bgcolor="#efefef" width="145"|Team
!bgcolor="#efefef" width="20"|Pld
!bgcolor="#efefef" width="20"|W
!bgcolor="#efefef" width="20"|D
!bgcolor="#efefef" width="20"|L
!bgcolor="#efefef" width="20"|GF
!bgcolor="#efefef" width="20"|GA
!bgcolor="#efefef" width="20"|Pts
!bgcolor="#efefef"|
!bgcolor="#efefef" width="20"|{{flagicon|PAK}}
!bgcolor="#efefef" width="20"|{{flagicon|NED}}
!bgcolor="#efefef" width="20"|{{flagicon|BEL}}
!bgcolor="#efefef" width="20"|{{flagicon|FRA|1848b}}
!bgcolor="#efefef" width="20"|{{flagicon|DEN}}
|- align=center bgcolor=lightblue
|1.
|align=left|{{flagIOCteam|PAK|1948 Summer}}
|4||4||0||0||20||3||'''8'''|| ||X||'''6:1'''||'''2:1'''||'''3:1'''||'''9:0'''
|- align=center bgcolor= lightblue
|2.
|align=left|{{flagIOCteam|NED|1948 Summer}}
|4||3||0||1||11||8||'''6'''|| ||1:6||X||'''4:1'''||'''2:0'''||'''4:1'''
|- align=center
|3.
|align=left|{{flagIOCteam|BEL|1948 Summer}}
|4||2||0||2||6||8||'''4'''|| ||1:2||1:4||X||'''2:1'''||'''2:1'''
|- align=center
|4.
|align=left|{{flagIOCteam|FRA|1948 Summer}}
|4||0||1||3||4||9||'''1'''|| ||1:3||0:2||1:2||X||2:2
|- align=center
|5.
|align=left|{{flagIOCteam|DEN|1948 Summer}}
|4||0||1||3||4||17||'''1'''|| ||0:9||1:4||1:2||2:2||X
|}
<small>Source: The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad{{sfn|London|1948|p=409}}</small><br/>
<small>Key: Pld - Played W - won D - drew L - lost GF - goals for GA - goals against Pts - points</small>
{| class="wikitable"
|+Men's Hockey - Ernest Bohr, London 1948
! Games
! Age
! City
! Sport
! Team
! NOC
! Phase
! Unit
! Rank
! Date
! Result
! GP
! G
|-
|| 1948 Summer
|| 24
|| London
|| Hockey
|| Denmark
|| DEN
|| Final Standings
||
|| 13
|| 31 July 1948
||
|| 2
|| 0
|-
|| 1948 Summer
|| 24
|| London
|| Hockey
|| Denmark
|| DEN
|| Group C
|| Match No. 5
|| 2
|| 3 August 1948
|| PAK 9, DEN 0
||
||
|-
|| 1948 Summer
|| 24
|| London
|| Hockey
|| Denmark
|| DEN
|| Group C
|| Match No. 8
|| 2
|| 5 August 1948
|| BEL 2, DEN 1
||
||
|}
<small>Source: Ernest Bohr Biography and Olympic results <ref name="hockey"/> </small><br/><small>Key: GP - games played G - goals</small>
==Notes==
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==References==
{{Portal|Biography|Olympics}}
* {{cite book |last=Pais |first=Abraham |author-link=Abraham Pais |year=1991 |title=Niels Bohr's Times, In Physics, Philosophy and Polity |location=Oxford |publisher=Clarendon Press |isbn=978-0-19-852049-8 |oclc=22906846 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/nielsbohrstimesi00pais_0 }}
* {{cite book |last=Rhodes |first=Richard |author-link=Richard Rhodes |title=[[The Making of the Atomic Bomb]] |location=New York |publisher=Simon & Schuster |year=1986 |isbn=0-671-44133-7|oclc=13793436 }}
* {{cite book|url=http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1948/OR1948.pdf |access-date=28 February 2013 |title=The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad |publisher=Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad |location=London |year=1948 |oclc=58862228 |ref=CITEREFLondon1948 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716035822/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1948/OR1948.pdf |archive-date=16 July 2011 }}
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