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<html> <head> <title>University of Copenhagen</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="/silly-nndb-icon.png" /><style type="text/css">  </style><script type="text/javascript" src="/sortable.js"></script> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/style.css" /> </head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr> <tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 15px 15px 15px 15px;"><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0> University of Copenhagen EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION Location: <a href="/geo/919/000069712/" class=proflink>Copenhagen, Denmark</a> Founding Date: 1479Enrollment: 35,000Official Website: <a href="http://www.ku.dk/">http://www.ku.dk/</a>STUDENTS <table border=1 class="sortable bordered" id="sort_student"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/018/000084763/">Hans Christian Andersen</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Apr-1805</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Aug-1875</tt></td> <td>Danish master of the fairy tale</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/454/000114112/">Ove Arup</a></td> <td><center>Engineer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Apr-1895</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Feb-1988</tt></td> <td>Danish civil engineer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/915/000162429/">Halldór Ásgrímsson</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Sep-1947</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-May-2015</tt></td> <td>Prime Minister of Iceland, 2004-06</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/262/000164767/">Frederic K. Becker</a></td> <td><center>Attorney</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1935</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Wilentz Goldman & Spitzer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/200/000030110/">Steen Steensen Blicher</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Oct-1782</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Mar-1848</tt></td> <td>Fragments from the Diary of a Parish Clerk</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/527/000071314/">Felix Bloch</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Oct-1905</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Sep-1983</tt></td> <td>Nuclear magnetic resonance</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/895/000099598/">Aage N. Bohr</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Jun-1922</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Sep-2009</tt></td> <td>Determined shapes of nuclei</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/560/000024488/">Niels Bohr</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Oct-1885</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Nov-1962</tt></td> <td>Father of Quantum Theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/559/000024487/">Tycho Brahe</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Dec-1546</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Oct-1601</tt></td> <td>Copper-nosed Danish astronomer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/960/000099663/">Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Oct-1910</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Aug-1995</tt></td> <td>Evolutionary stages of stars</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/836/000128452/">Henrik Dam</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Feb-1895</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>Apr-1976</tt></td> <td>Discovered Vitamin K</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/314/000072098/">Paul Dirac</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Aug-1902</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Oct-1984</tt></td> <td>The Principles of Quantum Mechanics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/172/000126791/">Johannes Fibiger</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Apr-1867</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Jan-1928</tt></td> <td>Caused cancer in lab rats</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/628/000107307/">Niels Ryberg Finsen</a></td> <td><center>Doctor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Dec-1860</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Sep-1904</tt></td> <td>Light therapy for lupus</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/228/000203616/">Frederick IX</a></td> <td><center>Royalty</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Mar-1899</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Jan-1972</tt></td> <td>King of Denmark, 1947-72</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/349/000099052/">George Gamow</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Mar-1904</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Aug-1968</tt></td> <td>Proponent of Big Bang Theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/839/000254077/">Andre Geim</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>Oct-1958</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Super-thin carbon physics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/025/000137611/">Karl Gjellerup</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Jun-1857</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Oct-1919</tt></td> <td>The Pilgrim Kamanita</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/035/000101729/">Christopher Hansteen</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Sep-1784</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Apr-1873</tt></td> <td>Studied terrestrial magnetism</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/156/000347112/">Poul Hartling</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Aug-1914</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Apr-2000</tt></td> <td>Prime Minister of Denmark, 1973-75</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/131/000101825/">Johannes Carsten Hauch</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-May-1790</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Mar-1872</tt></td> <td>Valdemar Seir</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/794/000097503/">Jens Peter Jacobsen</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Apr-1847</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Apr-1885</tt></td> <td>Niels Lyhne</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/153/000140730/">Johannes V. Jensen</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Jan-1873</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Nov-1950</tt></td> <td>The Long Journey</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/537/000132141/">Niels K. Jerne</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Dec-1911</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Oct-1994</tt></td> <td>Immune theory (anti-antibody)</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/261/000030171/">S鴕en Kierkegaard</a></td> <td><center>Philosopher</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-May-1813</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Nov-1855</tt></td> <td>Father of existentialism</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/578/000126200/">August Krogh</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Nov-1874</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Sep-1949</tt></td> <td>Discovered how capillaries regulate oxygen</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/793/000099496/">Lev Landau</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Jan-1908</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Apr-1968</tt></td> <td>Superfluidity of helium</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/457/000115112/">Nella Larsen</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Apr-1891</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Mar-1964</tt></td> <td>Quicksand</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/625/000129238/">Fritz Lipmann</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Jun-1899</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Jul-1986</tt></td> <td>Carbohydrate oxidation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/779/000087518/">Bj鴕n Lomborg</a></td> <td><center>Scholar</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jan-1965</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>The Skeptical Environmentalist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/341/000104029/">Hans Christian Oersted</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Aug-1777</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Mar-1851</tt></td> <td>Discovered electromagnetics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/497/000071284/">Wolfgang Pauli</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Apr-1900</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Dec-1958</tt></td> <td>Pauli Exclusion Principle</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/273/000203661/">Lars L鴎ke Rasmussen</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-May-1964</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Prime Minister of Denmark, 2009-11</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/150/000347106/">Poul Nyrup Rasmussen</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Jun-1943</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Prime Minister of Denmark, 1993-2001</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/151/000347107/">Poul Schlüter</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Apr-1929</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Prime Minister of Denmark, 1982-93</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/856/000099559/">Robert Schrieffer</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-May-1931</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>BCS Theory of Superconductivity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/828/000100528/">Jens C. Skou</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Oct-1918</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>ATPase researcher</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/142/000173620/">Bengt Strömgren</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Jan-1908</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Jul-1987</tt></td> <td>Hydrogen stars</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/149/000347105/">Helle Thorning-Schmidt</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Dec-1966</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Prime Minister of Denmark</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/873/000092597/">Harold C. Urey</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Apr-1893</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Jan-1981</tt></td> <td>Discovered Deuterium</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/322/000022256/">James Watson</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Apr-1928</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Co-Discoverer of DNA</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/945/000099648/">Steven Weinberg</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-May-1933</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Electroweak Theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/193/000099893/">Victor Weisskopf</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Sep-1908</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Apr-2002</tt></td> <td>Head of CERN, 1961-65</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/115/000099815/">John Archibald Wheeler</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Jul-1911</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Apr-2008</tt></td> <td>The Mechanism of Nuclear Fission</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/621/000100321/">Geoffrey Wilkinson</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Jul-1921</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Sep-1996</tt></td> <td>Organometallic "sandwich" compounds</td> </tr> </table> TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS <table border=1 class="sortable bordered" id="sort_teacher"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/895/000099598/">Aage N. Bohr</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Jun-1922</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Sep-2009</tt></td> <td>Determined shapes of nuclei</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/560/000024488/">Niels Bohr</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Oct-1885</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Nov-1962</tt></td> <td>Father of Quantum Theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/836/000128452/">Henrik Dam</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Feb-1895</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>Apr-1976</tt></td> <td>Discovered Vitamin K</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/172/000126791/">Johannes Fibiger</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Apr-1867</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Jan-1928</tt></td> <td>Caused cancer in lab rats</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/628/000107307/">Niels Ryberg Finsen</a></td> <td><center>Doctor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Dec-1860</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Sep-1904</tt></td> <td>Light therapy for lupus</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/326/000072110/">James Franck</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Aug-1882</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-May-1964</tt></td> <td>Franck-Hertz experiment</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/119/000099819/">Otto Robert Frisch</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Oct-1904</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Sep-1979</tt></td> <td>Described fission</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/488/000071275/">Werner Heisenberg</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Dec-1901</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Feb-1976</tt></td> <td>Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/235/000099935/">George de Hevesy</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Aug-1885</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Jul-1966</tt></td> <td>Radioisotope researcher</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/836/000100536/">Walter Kohn</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Mar-1923</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Apr-2016</tt></td> <td>Density-functional theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/032/000170519/">Hendrik Kramers</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Feb-1894</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Apr-1952</tt></td> <td>Kramers dispersion theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/578/000126200/">August Krogh</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Nov-1874</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Sep-1949</tt></td> <td>Discovered how capillaries regulate oxygen</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/898/000099601/">Ben R. Mottelson</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Jul-1926</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Determined shapes of nuclei</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/341/000104029/">Hans Christian Oersted</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Aug-1777</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Mar-1851</tt></td> <td>Discovered electromagnetics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/008/000113666/">Bertil Ohlin</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Apr-1899</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Aug-1979</tt></td> <td>Hecksher-Ohlin model of free trade</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/142/000173620/">Bengt Strömgren</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Jan-1908</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Jul-1987</tt></td> <td>Hydrogen stars</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/327/000098033/">Hans Svane</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Mar-1606</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Jul-1668</tt></td> <td>Danish statesman, absolutist</td> </tr> </table> ADMINISTRATORS AND TRUSTEES <table border=1 class="sortable bordered" id="sort_administrator"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/895/000099598/">Aage N. Bohr</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Jun-1922</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Sep-2009</tt></td> <td>Determined shapes of nuclei</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/560/000024488/">Niels Bohr</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Oct-1885</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Nov-1962</tt></td> <td>Father of Quantum Theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/142/000173620/">Bengt Strömgren</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Jan-1908</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Jul-1987</tt></td> <td>Hydrogen stars</td> </tr> </table> Do you know something we don't? <a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=71522" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a> Copyright ©2016 Soylent Communications </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"><div class="contentf"><center><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a> <a style="color: #0000ff" href="http://mapper.nndb.com/maps/375/000001372/"><img src="http://mapper.nndb.com/t/375/1372/s1372.jpg" width=128> Hollywood Super Families</a> Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.</center></div> <div class="contentf"><center>BibliographiesNNDB has added thousands of bibliographies for people, organizations, schools, and general topics, listing more than 50,000 books and 120,000 other kinds of references. 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