EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Location:
Copenhagen, Denmark

Founding Date:
1479

Enrollment:
35,000

Official Website:
http://www.ku.dk/

STUDENTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Hans Christian Andersen	Author	2-Apr-1805	4-Aug-1875	Danish master of the fairy tale
Ove Arup	Engineer	16-Apr-1895	1988	Danish civil engineer
Halldór Ásgrímsson	Head of State	8-Sep-1947		Prime Minister of Iceland, 2004-06
Frederic K. Becker	Attorney	1935		Wilentz Goldman & Spitzer
Steen Steensen Blicher	Author	11-Oct-1782	26-Mar-1848	Fragments from the Diary of a Parish Clerk
Aage N. Bohr	Physicist	19-Jun-1922		Determined shapes of nuclei
Niels Bohr	Physicist	7-Oct-1885	18-Nov-1962	Father of Quantum Theory
Tycho Brahe	Astronomer	14-Dec-1546	24-Oct-1601	Copper-nosed Danish astronomer
Henrik Dam	Scientist	21-Feb-1895	Apr-1976	Discovered Vitamin K
Paul Dirac	Physicist	8-Aug-1902	20-Oct-1984	The Principles of Quantum Mechanics
Johannes Fibiger	Scientist	23-Apr-1867	30-Jan-1928	Caused cancer in lab rats
Niels Ryberg Finsen	Doctor	15-Dec-1860	25-Sep-1904	Light therapy for lupus
Karl Gjellerup	Author	2-Jun-1857	11-Oct-1919	The Pilgrim Kamanita
Christopher Hansteen	Astronomer	26-Sep-1784	15-Apr-1873	Studied terrestrial magnetism
Johannes Carsten Hauch	Poet	12-May-1790	4-Mar-1872	Valdemar Seir
Jens Peter Jacobsen	Novelist	7-Apr-1847	30-Apr-1885	Niels Lyhne
Johannes V. Jensen	Author	20-Jan-1873	25-Nov-1950	The Long Journey
Niels K. Jerne	Scientist	23-Dec-1911	7-Oct-1994	Immune theory (anti-antibody)
Søren Kierkegaard	Philosopher	5-May-1813	11-Nov-1855	Father of existentialism
August Krogh	Scientist	15-Nov-1874	13-Sep-1949	Discovered how capillaries regulate oxygen
Nella Larsen	Novelist	13-Apr-1891	30-Mar-1964	Quicksand
Fritz Lipmann	Scientist	12-Jun-1899	24-Jul-1986	Carbohydrate oxidation
Bjørn Lomborg	Scholar	6-Jan-1965		The Skeptical Environmentalist
Hans Christian Oersted	Physicist	14-Aug-1777	9-Mar-1851	Discovered electromagnetics
Jens C. Skou	Chemist	8-Oct-1918		ATPase researcher
Bengt Strömgren	Astronomer	21-Jan-1908	4-Jul-1987	Hydrogen stars
Victor Weisskopf	Physicist	19-Sep-1908	21-Apr-2002	Head of CERN, 1961-65
John Archibald Wheeler	Physicist	9-Jul-1911	13-Apr-2008	The Mechanism of Nuclear Fission

TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Niels Bohr	Physicist	7-Oct-1885	18-Nov-1962	Father of Quantum Theory
Henrik Dam	Scientist	21-Feb-1895	Apr-1976	Discovered Vitamin K
Johannes Fibiger	Scientist	23-Apr-1867	30-Jan-1928	Caused cancer in lab rats
Niels Ryberg Finsen	Doctor	15-Dec-1860	25-Sep-1904	Light therapy for lupus
Werner Heisenberg	Physicist	5-Dec-1901	1-Feb-1976	Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
Hendrik Kramers	Physicist	17-Feb-1894	24-Apr-1952	Kramers dispersion theory
August Krogh	Scientist	15-Nov-1874	13-Sep-1949	Discovered how capillaries regulate oxygen
Hans Christian Oersted	Physicist	14-Aug-1777	9-Mar-1851	Discovered electromagnetics
Bertil Ohlin	Economist	23-Apr-1899	3-Aug-1979	Hecksher-Ohlin model of free trade
Bengt Strömgren	Astronomer	21-Jan-1908	4-Jul-1987	Hydrogen stars
Hans Svane	Government	27-Mar-1606	26-Jul-1668	Danish statesman, absolutist

ADMINISTRATORS AND TRUSTEES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Bengt Strömgren	Astronomer	21-Jan-1908	4-Jul-1987	Hydrogen stars

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