Editing University of Copenhagen (section)

==Notable alumni==
{{see also|List of Nobel laureates affiliated with the University of Copenhagen}}Over the course of its history, a sizeable number of University of Copenhagen alumni have become notable in their fields, both academic, and in the wider world.<ref>For a summary description of all of the set of scholars and literati who intervened in teaching at the University of Copenhagen since its inception to the eve of the Industrial Revolution (1800), see [[David de la Croix]], (2021), [https://ojs.uclouvain.be/index.php/RETE/article/view/60523/56643 Scholars and Literati at the University of Copenhagen (1475–1800), Repertorium Eruditorum Totius Europae/RETE, 2: 21-29.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230109154219/https://ojs.uclouvain.be/index.php/RETE/article/view/60523/56643 |date=9 January 2023 }}</ref>[[File:Tycho Brahe.JPG|thumb|[[Tycho Brahe]] ]]
[[File:Ole Rømer (Coning painting).jpg|thumb|[[Ole Rømer]]]]
[[File:Kierkegaard.jpg|thumb|[[Søren Kierkegaard]] ]]
[[File:Niels Bohr.jpg|right|thumb|[[Niels Bohr]] ]]
[[File:Piet Hein and H.C. Andersen (cropped).jpg|thumb|[[Piet Hein (scientist)|Piet Hein]] ]]
* [[Tycho Brahe]] (1546–1601), Danish astronomer, first scientific documentation of [[supernova]]s, mentor of [[Johannes Kepler]]
* [[Thomas Fincke]] (1561–1656), Danish mathematician and physicist
* [[Caspar Bartholin the Elder|Caspar Bartholin]] (1585–1629), professor in medicine and theology. Author of textbooks on anatomy and the discoverer of the workings of the [[olfactory nerve]].
* [[Ole Worm|Olaus Wormius]] (1588–1655), Danish physician and antiquarian
* [[Thomas Bartholin]] (1616–1680), discoverer of the [[lymphatic system]]
* [[Rasmus Bartholin]] (1625–1698), professor in geometry and medicine. He discovered [[birefringence]], but was unable to give a scientific explanation.
* [[Thomas Hansen Kingo]] (1634–1703), Danish bishop and poet
* [[Nicholas Steno]] (1638–1696), a pioneer in anatomy and geology
* [[Ole Rømer]] (1644–1710), Danish astronomer. He made the first quantitative measurements of the [[speed of light]].
* [[Peder Horrebow]] (1679–1764), Danish astronomer and member of [[Académie des Sciences]]
* [[Ludvig Holberg]] (1684–1754), Danish-Norwegian writer and playwright
* [[Christian Jacob Protten]] (1715–1769), Euro-African Moravian missionary pioneer, linguist, translator and educationalist-administrator
* [[Morten Thrane Brunnich]] (1737–1827), Danish zoologist
* [[Caspar Wessel]] (1745–1818), mathematician
* [[Martin Vahl (botanist)|Martin Vahl]] (1749–1804), Danish-Norwegian botanist and zoologist
* [[Hans Christian Ørsted]] (1777–1851), Danish physicist and chemist. He discovered [[electromagnetism]].
* [[Anders Sandøe Ørsted]] (1778–1860), Danish lawyer and [[Prime Minister of Denmark|prime minister of Denmark]] (1853–1854)
* [[Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger]] (1779–1850), poet, author of lyrics of the Danish national anthem ''[[Der er et yndigt land]]''
* [[N. F. S. Grundtvig]] (1783–1872), Danish writer, poet, philosopher and priest
* [[Christopher Hansteen]] (1784–1873), Norwegian astronomer and physicist
* [[Johan Ludvig Heiberg (poet)|Johan Ludvig Heiberg]] (1791–1860), Danish poet and critic
* [[Magnús Eiríksson]] (1806–1881), Icelandic theologian
* [[Søren Kierkegaard]] (1813–1855), Danish theologian and philosopher, the father of [[existentialism]]
* [[Anders Sandøe Ørsted (botanist)|Anders Sandøe Ørsted]] (1816–1872), professor of botany (1851–1862)
* [[Hinrich Johannes Rink]] (1819–1893), Danish geologist, and founder of the first [[Greenlandic language]] newspaper
* [[Peter Ludvig Panum]] (1820–1885), Danish physiologist and pathologist; the [[Panum Building]] in Copenhagen is named in his honor.
* [[Hans Schjellerup]] (1827–1887), Danish astronomer
* [[Carl Lange (physician)|Carl Lange]] (1834–1900), Danish physician
* [[Thorvald N. Thiele]] (1838–1910), Danish astronomer, actuary and mathematician
* [[Julius Petersen]] (1839–1910), Danish mathematician
* [[Eugenius Warming]] (1841–1924), Danish botanist and founding figure of ecology
* [[Georg Brandes]] (1842–1927), Danish writer and critic
* [[Vilhelm Thomsen]] (1842–1927), Danish linguist
* [[Harald Høffding]] (1843–1931), Danish philosopher, theologian and psychologist
* [[Herman Trier]] (1845–1925), Danish educator and politician
* [[Hans Christian Gram]] (1853–1938), Danish bacteriologist, inventor of [[Gram staining]]
* [[Christian Bohr]] (1855–1911), Danish physician, who described [[Bohr effect]]
* [[Wilhelm Johannsen]] (1857–1927), Danish botanist. He first coined the word ''[[gene]]'' in its modern usage.
* [[Niels Ryberg Finsen]] (1860–1904), [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel laureate in medicine]] (1903)
* [[Otto Jespersen]] (1860–1943), Danish linguist, co-founder of the [[International Phonetic Association]]
* [[Kirstine Meyer]] (1861–1941), Danish physicist
* [[Hannes Hafstein]] (1861–1922), Icelandic politician and poet
* [[Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger]] (1867–1928), [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel laureate in medicine]] (1926)
* [[Holger Pedersen (linguist)|Holger Pedersen]] (1867–1953), Danish linguist
* [[Agner Krarup Erlang]] (1878-1929), creator of the field of [[PSTN|telephone networks]] analysis
* [[S. P. L. Sørensen]] (1868–1939), Danish chemist, who introduced the concept of [[pH]]
* [[Martin Knudsen]] (1871–1949), Danish physicist
* [[August Krogh]] (1874–1949), [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel laureate in medicine]] (1920)
* [[Holger Scheuermann]] (1877–1960), Danish surgeon after whom [[Scheuermann's disease]] is named
* [[Kirstine Smith]] (1878–1939), Danish statistician credited with creation of [[optimal design]] of experiments
* [[Benjamin Christensen]] (1879–1959), Danish film director, screenwriter and actor
* [[File:Ingeborg Hammer-Jensen 1908.jpg|thumb|[[Ingeborg Hammer-Jensen]]]] [[Ingeborg Hammer-Jensen]] (1880–1955), classical scholar and philologist
* [[Niels Bohr]] (1885–1962). He contributed to development of the [[atom|atomic model]] and [[Quantum Mechanics|quantum mechanics]]. Director at the university's [[Niels Bohr Institute|Institute of Theoretical Physics]]. [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel laureate in physics]] (1922).
* [[Øjvind Winge]] (1886–1964), Danish biologist
* [[Harald Bohr]] (1887–1951), Danish Olympic silver medalist football player and mathematician; brother of [[Niels Bohr]]
* [[Inge Lehmann]] (1888–1993), Danish seismologist discovering the [[Earth's inner core]]
* [[Jakob Nielsen (mathematician)|Jakob Nielsen]] (1890–1959), Danish mathematician
* [[Julie Vinter Hansen]] (1890–1960), Danish astronomer
* [[Carl Værnet|Carl Vaernet]] (1893–1965), Danish medical doctor
* [[Oskar Klein]] (1894–1977), Swedish theoretical physicist
* [[Henrik Dam]] (1895–1976), [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel laureate in medicine]] (1943)
* [[Ove Arup|Sir Ove Arup]] (1896–1988), Anglo-Danish structural engineer
* [[Alf Ross]] (1899–1979), Danish legal philosopher
* [[Louis Hjelmslev]] (1899–1965), Danish linguist, founder of [[Copenhagen School (linguistics)|Copenhagen School]]
* [[Anton Frederik Bruun]] (1901–1961), Danish [[Oceanography|oceanographer]]
* [[Georg Rasch]] (1901–1980), Danish mathematician, statistician and [[psychometrics|psychometrician]]
* [[Knud Ejler Løgstrup]] (1905–1981), Danish philosopher and theologian. Pastor at Sandager-Holevad 1936–1943. Professor at University of Aarhus 1943–1975.
* [[Piet Hein (Denmark)|Piet Hein]] (1905–1996), Danish mathematician, inventor and poet
* [[Bengt Strömgren]] (1908–1987), Danish astronomer and astrophysicist
* [[Hilde Levi]] (1909–2003), German-Danish physicist
* [[Niels Kaj Jerne]] (1911–1994), [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel laureate in medicine]] (1984)
* [[Preben von Magnus]] (1912–1973), Danish virologist, who gave name to the [[Von Magnus phenomenon]]
* [[Jens Otto Krag]] (1914–1978), [[Prime Minister of Denmark|prime minister of Denmark]] (1962–1968, 1971–1972)
* [[Poul Hartling]] (1914–2000), [[Prime Minister of Denmark|prime minister of Denmark]] (1973–1975) and [[United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees]] (1978–1985), [[Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel Peace Prize laureate]] on behalf of [[UNHCR]] (1981)
* [[Bjørn Aage Ibsen]] (1915–2007), [[Anesthetist]] and founder of [[intensive-care medicine]]
* [[Poul Bjørndahl Astrup]] (1915–2000), Danish clinical chemist, inventor of blood gas analyzer
* [[Jens Christian Skou]] (born 1918), [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel laureate in chemistry]] (1997) for his discovery of [[Na+,K+-ATPase]]
* [[Hans Ørberg|Hans H. Ørberg]] (1920–2010), linguist and scholar
* [[Aage Bohr]] (1922–2009), professor in [[nuclear physics]] and director of the [[Niels Bohr Institute]] at the university. [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel laureate in physics]] (1975).
* [[Halfdan T. Mahler]] (1923–2016), Director-General of [[World Health Organization]] (1973–1988)
* [[Ólafía Einarsdóttir]] (1924–2017), first person from Iceland to earn a degree in archaeology
* [[Ben Roy Mottelson]] (1926–2022), American-born Danish nuclear physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel laureate in physics]] (1975)
* [[Peter Naur]] (1928–2016), computer scientist, [[Turing Award]] in 2005
* [[Poul Schlüter]] (1929–2021), [[Prime Minister of Denmark|prime minister of Denmark]] (1982–1993)
* [[Vigdís Finnbogadóttir]] (born 1930), the 4th [[President of Iceland]] (1980–1996)
* [[Ozer Schild]] (1930–2006), Danish-born Israeli academic, president of the [[University of Haifa]] and president of the [[College of Judea and Samaria]] ("Ariel College")
* [[Jørgen Rischel]] (1934–2007), Danish linguist, who analyzed [[Greenlandic language|Greenlandic]] and [[Mon-Khmer]] languages
* [[Per Kirkeby]] (born 1938), Danish painter and sculptor
* [[Per Pinstrup-Andersen]] (born 1939), Danish economist, 2001 [[World Food Prize]] laureate
* [[Søren Johansen]] (born 1939), Danish econometrician
* [[Lasse Hessel]] (born 1940), inventor of [[female condom]]
* [[Anders Boserup]] (1940–1990), co-founder of the Danish Institute for Peace and Conflict Research and the Nordic Peace Foundation
* [[Aage B. Sørensen]] (1941–2001), Danish sociologist
* [[Holger Bech Nielsen]] (born 1941), Danish physicist, one of three creators of [[string theory]]
* [[Jørgen Haugan]] (born 1941), Doctorate in Philosophy (1977); Norwegian author and lecturer
* [[Poul Nyrup Rasmussen]] (born 1943), [[Prime Minister of Denmark|prime minister of Denmark]] (1993–2001)
* [[Claus Bjørn]] (1944–2005), author, historian and broadcaster
* [[Niels Peter Lemche]] (born 1945), biblical scholar, founder of [[Copenhagen School (theology)|Copenhagen School]]
* [[Mogens Lykketoft]] (born 1946), Danish politician, the 70th [[President of the United Nations General Assembly]] (2015–2016)
* [[Halldór Ásgrímsson]] (born 1947), [[Prime Minister of Iceland|prime minister of Iceland]] (2004–2006)
* [[Ole Humlum]] (born 1949), Danish geologist and professor emeritus at the [[University of Oslo]]
* [[Uffe Haagerup]] (1949–2015), Danish mathematician
* [[Jesper Nygart]] (born 1956), Danish physician
* [[Peter Høeg]] (born 1957), Danish fiction writer. He won international acclaim with ''[[Smilla's Sense of Snow]]''.
* [[Morten Frost]] (born 1958), Danish world-class badminton player and coach
* [[Mads Tofte]] (born 1959), computer scientist, vice chancellor of [[IT University of Copenhagen]]
* [[Ole Wæver]] (born 1960), scholar of International Relations, one of exponents of [[Copenhagen School (international relations)|Copenhagen School]]
* [[Steve Scully]] (born 1960), American host, senior producer, and political editor of the [[C-SPAN]] network's ''[[Washington Journal]]''. He studied at the University of Copenhagen as part of his master's program at [[Northwestern University]] in [[Evanston, Illinois]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.c-span.org/uploadedFiles/Content/spring11syllabus.pdf|title=Congress and the Presidency in the TV and Digital Age|publisher=C-SPAN|access-date=4 May 2011|archive-date=28 September 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120928192956/http://www.c-span.org/uploadedFiles/Content/spring11syllabus.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Corinna Cortes]] (born 1961), computer scientist
* [[Lars Løkke Rasmussen]] (born 1964), [[Prime Minister of Denmark|prime minister of Denmark]] (2009–2011, 2015–2019)
* [[Lars Mikkelsen]] (born 1964), Danish actor
* [[Bjørn Lomborg]] (born 1965), Danish economist, author of ''[[The Skeptical Environmentalist]]''
* [[Helle Thorning-Schmidt]] (born 1966), [[Prime Minister of Denmark|prime minister of Denmark]] (2011–2015)
*[[Marie-Louise Nosch]] (born 1970), archaeologist; Professor in the university's Saxo Institute
* [[Eskild Ebbesen]] (born 1972), Danish world-class lightweight rower
* [[Morten Meldal]] (born 1954), [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel laureate in chemistry]] (2022) for his invention of [[Click chemistry]]
* [[Arne Astrup]] (born 1955), nutritionist and professor
* [[Jennifer Kewley Draskau]] (died 2024), Manx historian, linguist, teacher and political candidate