List of Danes - Science

Science

  • Ove Arup, (1895–1988) Danish-born leading engineer, founder of Arup
  • Harald Bohr, (1887–1951), mathematician
  • Niels Bohr, (1885–1962), physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
  • Aage Bohr, (1922–2009), physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
  • A. K. Erlang, engineer, industrial and systems engineer
  • Thomas Fincke, (1561–1656), mathematician
  • Bent Flyvbjerg, geographer and theorist of phronetic social science
  • Jørgen Pedersen Gram
  • Peter Wilhelm Lund (1801–1880). paleontologist and zologist, founder of Brazilian paleontology
  • Lene Hau, (1959–), physicist and professor at Harvard University
  • Piet Hein, (1905–1996), poet and designer
  • Georg Mohr, (1640–1697), mathematician
  • Ebbe Nielsen (1950–2001), entomologist
  • Jakob Nielsen, mathematician
  • Asger Skovgaard Ostenfeld (1866–1931), civil engineer
  • Julius Petersen, (1839–1910), mathematician
  • Thorvald Thiele, statistician, discoverer of cumulants
  • Caspar Wessel, (1745–1818), Norwegian-Danish mathematician
  • Rasmus Lerdorf, PHP, (born in Greenland, lives in USA)
  • Peter Naur, (1928–), Algol 60 and Backus-Naur form. Turing Award winner.
  • Jakob Nielsen, (1957–), Usability, (lives in USA)
  • Christen C. Raunkiær, (1860–1938), ecologist and botanist, plant life-form
  • Bent Erik Sørensen (born 1941), physicist and researcher into renewable energy
  • Bjarne Stroustrup, (1950–), C++, (lives in USA)
  • Anders Hejlsberg, Turbo Pascal, Delphi language, C#, (lives in USA)
  • David Heinemeier Hansson, Ruby on Rails, (lives in USA)
  • Jens Martin Knudsen, (1930–2005)
  • Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, Prussian astronomer, died in Copenhagen.
  • Tycho Brahe, (1546–1601), provided the observational data for Kepler's laws of planetary motion.
  • Johan Ludvig Emil Dreyer, (1852–1926), Danish-born astronomer
  • Peter Andreas Hansen, (1795–1874)
  • Ejnar Hertzsprung, (1873–1967), astronomer
  • Ole Rømer, (1644–1710), first to calculate the speed of light.
  • Bengt Strömgren, (1908–1987)
  • Thorvald Sørensen,(1902–1973), botanist
  • Rasmus Bartholin, (1625–1698)
  • Hans Christian Ørsted, (1777–1851), physicist, discoverer of electromagnetism, speed of light
  • Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, (1879–1947)
  • Jens Christian Skou, chemist and Nobel Prize laureate 1997
  • Søren Peder Lauritz Sørensen, (1868–1939), chemist
  • Conrad Malte-Brun, (1775–1826)
  • Claudius Clavus (Claudius Claussøn Swart), (1388–?)
  • Willi Dansgaard, (1922–), geophysics
  • Inge Lehmann, (1888–1993)
  • Nicolas Steno / Niels Stensen, (1638–1686), geologist
  • Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, Archaeologist, inventor of the Three-age system
  • Carl Peter Henrik Dam, (1895–1976)
  • Hans Christian Gram, (1853–1938), bacteriologist (Gram staining)
  • Emil Christian Hansen, (1842–1909) Saccharomyces carlsbergensis
  • Wilhelm Johannsen, (1857–1927), coined the term gene
  • Schack August Steenberg Krogh, physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate
  • Johannes Schmidt
  • Caspar Bartholin the Elder, (1585–1629)
  • Caspar Bartholin the Younger, (1655–1738)
  • Thomas Bartholin, (1616–1680)
  • Niels Ryberg Finsen, (1860–1904), physician and Nobel Prize laureate
  • Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger, physician and Nobel Prize laureate
  • Niels Kaj Jerne, immunologist and Nobel Prize laureate
  • Niels A. Lassen, neuroimaging pioneer.
  • Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher, (1757–1830)
  • Niels Steensen, (1638–1686) anatomist, Roman Catholic bishop and saint
  • Eugen Warming, (1841–1924), ecologist and botanist
  • Jacob B. Winsløw, (1669–1760)
  • Ole Worm, (1588–1654)
  • Bjarne Tromborg, physicist (1940–present)
  • Thorvald N. Thiele, (1883–1910) astronomer, actuary and mathematician, most notable for his work in statistics, interpolation and the three-body problem.

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