page_title: Tisvilde
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: Tisvilde / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: English: Niels Bohr, physicist.
context_page_description: Tisvilde is a small town with a population of 1,533 located on the north coast of the island Zealand in Denmark 60 km in Gribskov Municipality, northeast of Hillerød.
  Tisvildeleje is the coastal part of Tisvilde. "Leje" roughly translates as 'plain' and used to be a fishermans village. Now most of the fishermen's houses are used as charming summer residences. The southeast of Tisvilde is referred to as Tibirke.
  Tisvilde, alongside Hornbæk further to the east, has the highest prices of summer houses in Denmark. A 175 sqn summer house was sold for DKK22 mio. in 2017.
context_section_description: Johannes V. Jensen (1873–1950) a Danish writer, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1944; lived in Tisvilde 
  Niels Bohr (1885–1962) a Danish physicist who contributed to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922; he lived in Tisvilde much of the time.
  William Scharff (1886–1959) a Danish painter, a leading proponents of Cubism in Denmark, lived in Tisvilde 
  Carl Jensen (1887–1961) a Danish painter and newspaper illustrator, he helped bring Cubism to Denmark; lived in Tisvilde from 1918
  Knudåge Riisager (1897–1974) a Danish composer, lived in Tisvilde 
  Abraham Pais (1918–2000) a Dutch-American physicist and science historian,  his doctoral dissertation  prompted Niels Bohr to invite him to come to Tisvilde as his assistant
  Henrik Valeur (born 1966) a Danish architect-urbanist, brought up in Tibirke
caption: Niels Bohr, 1922
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