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	5-Feb-1988	Danish civil engineer
Halldór Ásgrímsson	Head of State	8-Sep-1947	18-May-2015	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
Felix Bloch	Physicist	23-Oct-1905	10-Sep-1983	Nuclear magnetic resonance
Aage N. Bohr	Physicist	19-Jun-1922	8-Sep-2009	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
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar	Astronomer	19-Oct-1910	21-Aug-1995	Evolutionary stages of stars
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
Frederick IX	Royalty	11-Mar-1899	14-Jan-1972	King of Denmark, 1947-72
George Gamow	Physicist	4-Mar-1904	19-Aug-1968	Proponent of Big Bang Theory
Andre Geim	Physicist	Oct-1958		Super-thin carbon physics
Karl Gjellerup	Author	2-Jun-1857	11-Oct-1919	The Pilgrim Kamanita
Christopher Hansteen	Astronomer	26-Sep-1784	15-Apr-1873	Studied terrestrial magnetism
Poul Hartling	Head of State	14-Aug-1914	30-Apr-2000	Prime Minister of Denmark, 1973-75
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
Lev Landau	Physicist	22-Jan-1908	1-Apr-1968	Superfluidity of helium
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
Wolfgang Pauli	Physicist	25-Apr-1900	15-Dec-1958	Pauli Exclusion Principle
Lars Løkke Rasmussen	Head of State	15-May-1964		Prime Minister of Denmark, 2009-11
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen	Head of State	15-Jun-1943		Prime Minister of Denmark, 1993-2001
Poul Schlüter	Head of State	3-Apr-1929		Prime Minister of Denmark, 1982-93
Robert Schrieffer	Physicist	31-May-1931		BCS Theory of Superconductivity
Jens C. Skou	Scientist	8-Oct-1918		ATPase researcher
Bengt Strömgren	Astronomer	21-Jan-1908	4-Jul-1987	Hydrogen stars
Helle Thorning-Schmidt	Head of State	14-Dec-1966		Prime Minister of Denmark
Harold C. Urey	Chemist	29-Apr-1893	5-Jan-1981	Discovered Deuterium
James Watson	Scientist	6-Apr-1928		Co-Discoverer of DNA
Steven Weinberg	Physicist	3-May-1933		Electroweak Theory
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
Geoffrey Wilkinson	Chemist	14-Jul-1921	26-Sep-1996	Organometallic "sandwich" compounds

TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Aage N. Bohr	Physicist	19-Jun-1922	8-Sep-2009	Determined shapes of nuclei
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
James Franck	Physicist	26-Aug-1882	21-May-1964	Franck-Hertz experiment
Otto Robert Frisch	Physicist	1-Oct-1904	22-Sep-1979	Described fission
Werner Heisenberg	Physicist	5-Dec-1901	1-Feb-1976	Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
George de Hevesy	Chemist	1-Aug-1885	5-Jul-1966	Radioisotope researcher
Walter Kohn	Chemist	9-Mar-1923	19-Apr-2016	Density-functional theory
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
Ben R. Mottelson	Physicist	9-Jul-1926		Determined shapes of nuclei
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
Aage N. Bohr	Physicist	19-Jun-1922	8-Sep-2009	Determined shapes of nuclei
Niels Bohr	Physicist	7-Oct-1885	18-Nov-1962	Father of Quantum Theory
Bengt Strömgren	Astronomer	21-Jan-1908	4-Jul-1987	Hydrogen stars

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