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.