List of Danish inventors and discoverers
The list of Danish inventors and discoverers is a list of inventors and discoverers from Denmark in alphabetical order by family name.
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B.
- Vitus Bering : Navigator, Proof that Asia and North America are not connected; Second Kamchatka expedition, discovery of the Bering Island , naming the Bering Strait and the Bering Sea after him
- Aage Niels Bohr : Nobel Prize for the discovery of the connection between collective and particle movement in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of atomic nuclei based on this connection
- Niels Bohr : Nobel Prize for services to research into the structure of atoms and the radiation emitted by them
- Tycho Brahe : astronomer
C.
- Ole Kirk Christiansen : Lego 1949, patent 1958
D.
- Henrik Dam : Nobel Prize for the discovery of vitamin K.
E.
- Jacob Christian Hansen Ellehammer : Pioneer of aircraft construction
F.
- Niels Ryberg Finsen Nobel Prize in recognition of his contribution to the treatment of diseases, particularly lupus vulgaris , by means of concentrated rays of light, through which he opened up a new avenue for medical science
H
- Ejnar Hertzsprung : astronomer, Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
- Søren Hjorth : dynamo-electric principle, self-excited dynamo machine, patent 1854
K
- Niels Kaj Jerne : Nobel Prize for theories about the specific structure and control of the immune system and for the discovery of the principle of the production of monoclonal antibodies
- Johan Kjeldahl : chemist, inventor of the Kjeldahl flask , Kjeldahl nitrogen determination
- August Krogh : Nobel Prize for the discovery of the capillary motor regulation mechanism
L.
- Ludvig Lorenz : Physicist, Lorenz calibration and Mie scattering (together with Gustav Mie)
M.
- Rasmus Malling-Hansen : Skrivekugle (typewriter) 1841 or 1865
- Christian Møller : physicist, Møller scattering
- Ben Mottelson : Nobel Prize for the discovery of the connection between collective and particle movement in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of atomic nuclei based on this connection
O
- Hans Christian Ørsted : piperidine 1819, piezometer and ammeter 1820, aluminum production 1825
P
- Mikael Pedersen : among other things the Pedersen bicycle
- Valdemar Poulsen : tape recorder (" Telegraphon ") 1898/99
- Poul la Cour : co-inventor of modern wind turbines
R.
- Ole Rømer : astronomer, proof that the speed of light is finite
S.
- Jens Christian Skou : Nobel Prize for the discovery of the ion-transporting enzyme sodium-potassium-ATPase
- Søren Sørensen : Establishing the pH value scale
- Nicolaus Steno (1638–1686): natural scientist, stratigraphic principle