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| − | |motto=Coelestem adspicit lucem
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| − | |description=Central university for the Danish state
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| − | The '''University of Copenhagen''' ('''UCPH''') (''Københavns Universitet'') is a public [[research university]] in [[Copenhagen|Copenhagen, Denmark]]. Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen is the second-oldest university in [[Scandinavia]], and ranks as one of the top universities in the [[Nordic countries]] and [[Europe]].<ref>https://danmarkshistorien.dk/leksikon-og-kilder/vis/materiale/koebenhavns-universitet-indtil-1849/</ref>
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| − | Its establishment sanctioned by [[Pope Sixtus IV]], the University of Copenhagen was founded by [[Christian I of Denmark]] as a [[Catholic]] teaching institution with a predominantly [[Theology|theological]] focus. Up until the 18th century, the university was primarily concerned with educating [[Clergy|clergymen]]. Through various reforms in the 18th and 19th century, the University of Copenhagen was transformed into a modern, [[Secularism|secular]] university, with science and the humanities replacing theology as the main subjects studied and taught.<ref>https://danmarkshistorien.dk/leksikon-og-kilder/vis/materiale/koebenhavns-universitet-indtil-1849/</ref>
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| − | The University of Copenhagen consists of six different [[Faculty (division)|faculties]], with teaching taking place in its four distinct campuses, all situated in Copenhagen.<ref>https://about.ku.dk/organisation/faculties/</ref> The university operates 36 different departments and 122 separate [[Research centre|research centres]] in Copenhagen, as well as a number of museums and [[Botanical garden|botanical gardens]] in and outside the Danish capital.<ref>https://about.ku.dk/visit/museums/ Retrieved July 24, 2020.</ref> The University of Copenhagen also owns and operates multiple [[Research station|research stations]] around Denmark, with two additional ones located in [[Greenland]].<ref>https://research.ku.dk/areas/ Retrieved July 24, 2020. </ref><ref>https://www.science.ku.dk/fakultetet/organisation/feltstationer/ (in Danish). Retrieved July 24, 2020. </ref> Additionally, [[University of Copenhagen Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences|The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences]] and the public hospitals of the [[Capital Region of Denmark|Capital]] and [[Region Zealand|Zealand Region]] of Denmark constitute the conglomerate [[Copenhagen University Hospital]].<ref>Larsen, Jørgen Falck; Engelbrecht, Nils: Københavns Universitetshospital in 'Den Store Danske' at https://denstoredanske.lex.dk/K%C3%B8benhavns_Universitetshospital (in Danish). Retrieved July 25, 2020.</ref>
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| − | A number of prominent [[Scientific theory|scientific theories]] and [[schools of thought]] are namesakes of the University of Copenhagen. The famous [[Copenhagen Interpretation]] of [[quantum mechanics]] was conceived at the [[Niels Bohr Institute]], which is part of the university.<refhttps://www.nbi.ku.dk/english/www/institute/History/The_Copenhagen_Interpretation/</ref> The Department of Political Science birthed the [[Copenhagen School of security studies|Copenhagen School of Security Studies]], which is also named after the university.<ref>https://politicalscience.ku.dk/staff/Academic_staff/?pure=en/persons/96961</ref> Others include the [[Biblical minimalism|Copenhagen School of Theology]] and the [[Copenhagen School (linguistics)|Copenhagen School of Linguistics]].<ref>https://teol.ku.dk/nyheder/nyheder2014/niels_peter_lemche/</ref>
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| − | As of October 2020, [[List of Nobel laureates by university affiliation#University of Copenhagen|39 Nobel laureates]] and [[List of Turing Award laureates by university affiliation|1 Turing Award laureate]] have been affiliated with the University of Copenhagen as students, alumni or faculty.<ref>http://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/naur_1024454.cfm</ref> Alumni include one [[Mogens Lykketoft|president of the United Nations General Assembly]] and at least 24 [[List of Danish Prime Ministers|prime ministers of Denmark]]. The University of Copenhagen fosters [[entrepreneurship]], and between 5 and 6 [[start-ups]] are founded by students, alumni or faculty members each week.<ref>https://about.ku.dk/facts-figures/value-for-society/|publisher=University of Copenhagen</ref>
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| − | ==Notable alumni (chronological order)==
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| − | * [[Tycho Brahe]] (1546–1601), Danish astronomer, first scientific documentation of [[supernova]]s, mentor of [[Johannes Kepler]].
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| − | * [[Thomas Fincke]] (1561–1656), Danish mathematician and physicist.
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| − | * [[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]].
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| − | * [[Ole Worm|Olaus Wormius]] (1588–1655), Danish physician and antiquarian.
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| − | * [[Thomas Bartholin]] (1616–1680), discoverer of the [[lymphatic system]].
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| − | * [[Rasmus Bartholin]] (1625–1698), professor in geometry and medicine. Discovered [[birefringence]], but was unable to give a scientific explanation.
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| − | * [[Thomas Hansen Kingo]] (1634–1703), Danish bishop and poet.
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| − | * [[Nicholas Steno]] (1638–1696), a pioneer in anatomy and geology.
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| − | * [[Ole Rømer]] (1644–1710), Danish astronomer, made the first quantitative measurements of the [[speed of light]].
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| − | * [[Peder Horrebow]] (1679–1764), Danish astronomer and member of [[Académie des Sciences]].
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| − | * [[Ludvig Holberg]] (1684–1754), Danish-Norwegian writer and playwright.
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| − | * [[Morten Thrane Brunnich]] (1737–1827), Danish zoologist.
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| − | * [[Caspar Wessel]] (1745–1818), mathematician.
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| − | * [[Martin Vahl (botanist)|Martin Vahl]] (1749–1804), Danish-Norwegian botanist and zoologist.
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| − | * [[Hans Christian Ørsted]] (1777–1851), Danish physicist and chemist, discovered [[electromagnetism]].
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| − | * [[Anders Sandøe Ørsted]] (1778–1860), Danish lawyer and [[Prime Minister of Denmark|prime minister of Denmark]] (1853–1854).
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| − | * [[Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger]] (1779–1850), poet, author of lyrics of the Danish national anthem ''[[Der er et yndigt land]].''
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| − | * [[N. F. S. Grundtvig]] (1783–1872), Danish writer, poet, philosopher and priest.
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| − | * [[Christopher Hansteen]] (1784–1873), Norwegian astronomer and physicist.
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| − | * [[Johan Ludvig Heiberg (poet)|Johan Ludvig Heiberg]] (1791–1860), Danish poet and critic.
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| − | * [[Magnús Eiríksson]] (1806–1881), Icelandic theologian.
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| − | * [[Søren Kierkegaard]] (1813–1855), Danish theologian and philosopher, the father of [[existentialism]].
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| − | * [[Anders Sandøe Ørsted (botanist)|Anders Sandøe Ørsted]] (1816–1872), professor of botany 1851–1862.
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| − | * [[Hinrich Johannes Rink]] (1819–1893), Danish geologist, and founder of the first [[Greenlandic language]] newspaper.
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| − | * [[Peter Ludvig Panum]] (1820–1885), Danish physiologist and pathologist, the [[Panum Building]] in Copenhagen is named in his honor.
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| − | * [[Hans Schjellerup]] (1827–1887), Danish astronomer.
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| − | * [[Carl Lange (physician)|Carl Lange]] (1834–1900), Danish physician.
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| − | * [[Thorvald N. Thiele]] (1838–1910), Danish astronomer, actuary and mathematician.
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| − | * [[Julius Petersen]] (1839–1910), Danish mathematician.
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| − | * [[Eugenius Warming]] (1841–1924), Danish botanist and founding figure of ecology.
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| − | * [[Georg Brandes]] (1842–1927), Danish writer and critic.
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| − | * [[Vilhelm Thomsen]] (1842–1927), Danish linguist.
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| − | * [[Harald Høffding]] (1843–1931), Danish philosopher theologian psychologist.
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| − | * [[Hans Christian Gram]] (1853–1938), Danish bacteriologist, inventor of [[Gram staining]].
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| − | * [[Christian Bohr]] (1855–1911), Danish physician who described [[Bohr effect]].
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| − | * [[Wilhelm Johannsen]] (1857–1927), Danish botanist, first coined the word ''[[gene]]'' in its modern usage.
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| − | * [[Niels Ryberg Finsen]] (1860–1904), [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel laureate in medicine]] (1903).
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| − | * [[Otto Jespersen]] (1860–1943), Danish linguist, co-founder of the [[International Phonetic Association]].
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| − | * [[Kirstine Meyer]] (1861–1941), Danish physicist.
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| − | * [[Hannes Hafstein]] (1861–1922), Icelandic politician and poet.
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| − | * [[Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger]] (1867–1928), [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel laureate in medicine]] (1926).
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| − | * [[Holger Pedersen (linguist)|Holger Pedersen]] (1867–1953), Danish linguist.
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| − | * [[S. P. L. Sørensen]] (1868–1939), Danish chemist who introduced the concept of [[pH]].
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| − | * [[Martin Knudsen]] (1871–1949), Danish physicist.
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| − | * [[August Krogh]] (1874–1949), [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel laureate in medicine]] (1920).
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| − | * [[Holger Scheuermann]] (1877–1960), Danish surgeon after whom [[Scheuermann's disease]] is named.
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| − | * [[Kirstine Smith]] (1878–1939), Danish statistician credited with creation of [[optimal design]] of experiments.
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| − | * [[Benjamin Christensen]] (1879–1959), Danish film director, screenwriter and actor.
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| − | * [[Niels Bohr]] (1885–1962), 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).
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| − | * [[Øjvind Winge]] (1886–1964), Danish biologist.
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| − | * [[Harald Bohr]] (1887–1951), Danish Olympic silver medalist football player and mathematician; brother of [[Niels Bohr]].
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| − | * [[Inge Lehmann]] (1888–1993), Danish seismologist discovering the [[Earth's inner core]].
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| − | * [[Jakob Nielsen (mathematician)|Jakob Nielsen]] (1890–1959), Danish mathematician.
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| − | * [[Julie Vinter Hansen]] (1890–1960), Danish astronomer.
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| − | * [[Oskar Klein]] (1894–1977), Swedish theoretical physicist.
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| − | * [[Henrik Dam]] (1895–1976), [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel laureate in medicine]] (1943).
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| − | * [[Ove Arup|Sir Ove Arup]] (1896–1988), Anglo-Danish structural engineer.
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| − | * [[Alf Ross]] (1899–1979), Danish legal philosopher.
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| − | * [[Louis Hjelmslev]] (1899–1965), Danish linguist, founder of [[Copenhagen School (linguistics)|Copenhagen School]].
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| − | * [[Anton Frederik Bruun]] (1901-1961), Danish [[Oceanography|oceanographer]].
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| − | * [[Georg Rasch]] (1901–1980), Danish mathematician, statistician, and [[psychometrics|psychometrician]].
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| − | * [[Knud Ejler Løgstrup]] (1905–1981), Danish philosopher and theologian. Pastor at Sandager-Holevad 1936–1943. Professor at University of Aarhus 1943–1975.
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| − | * [[Piet Hein (Denmark)|Piet Hein]] (1905–1996), Danish mathematician, inventor and poet.
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| − | * [[Bengt Strömgren]] (1908–1987), Danish astronomer and astrophysicist.
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| − | * [[Hilde Levi]] (1909–2003), German-Danish physicist.
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| − | * [[Niels Kaj Jerne]] (1911–1994), [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel laureate in medicine]] (1984).
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| − | * [[Preben von Magnus]] (1912-1973), Danish virologist who gave name to the [[Von Magnus phenomenon]].
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| − | * [[Jens Otto Krag]] (1914–1978), [[Prime Minister of Denmark|prime minister of Denmark]] (1962–1968, 1971–1972).
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| − | * [[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).
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| − | * [[Bjørn Aage Ibsen]] (1915-2007), [[Anesthetist]] and founder of [[intensive-care medicine]]
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| − | * [[Poul Bjørndahl Astrup]] (1915-2000), Danish clinical chemist, inventor of blood gas analyzer.
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| − | * [[Jens Christian Skou]] (born 1918), [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel laureate in chemistry]] (1997) for his discovery of [[Na+,K+-ATPase]].
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| − | * [[Hans Ørberg|Hans H. Ørberg]] (1920–2010), linguist and scholar.
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| − | * [[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).
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| − | * [[Halfdan T. Mahler]] (born 1923), Director-General of [[World Health Organization]](1973–1988).
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| − | * [[Ólafía Einarsdóttir]] (1924-2017), first person from Iceland to earn a degree in archaeology
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| − | * [[Ben Roy Mottelson]] (born 1926), American-born Danish nuclear physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel laureate in physics]] (1975).
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| − | * [[Peter Naur]] (1928-2016), computer scientist, [[Turing Award]] in 2005.
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| − | * [[Poul Schlüter]] (born 1929), [[Prime Minister of Denmark|prime minister of Denmark]] (1982–1993).
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| − | * [[Vigdís Finnbogadóttir]] (born 1930), the 4th [[President of Iceland]] (1980–1996).
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| − | * [[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").
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| − | * [[Jørgen Rischel]] (1934–2007), Danish linguist who analyzed [[Greenlandic language|Greenlandic]] and [[Mon-Khmer]] languages.
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| − | * [[Per Kirkeby]] (born 1938), Danish painter and sculptor.
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| − | * [[Per Pinstrup-Andersen]] (born 1939), Danish economist, 2001 [[World Food Prize]] laureate.
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| − | * [[Søren Johansen]] (born 1939), Danish econometrician.
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| − | * [[Lasse Hessel]] (born 1940), inventor of [[female condom]].
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| − | * [[Anders Boserup]] (1940 – 1990), co-founder of the Danish Institute for Peace and Conflict Research and the Nordic Peace Foundation.
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| − | * [[Aage B. Sørensen]] (1941–2001), Danish sociologist.
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| − | * [[Holger Bech Nielsen]] (born 1941), Danish physicist, one of three creators of [[string theory]].
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| − | * [[Jørgen Haugan]] (born 1941), Doctorate in Philosophy (1977); Norwegian author and lecturer.
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| − | * [[Poul Nyrup Rasmussen]] (born 1943), [[Prime Minister of Denmark|prime minister of Denmark]] (1993–2001).
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| − | * [[Niels Peter Lemche]] (born 1945), biblical scholar, founder of [[Copenhagen School (theology)|Copenhagen School]].
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| − | * [[Mogens Lykketoft]] (born 1946), Danish politician, the 70th [[President of the United Nations General Assembly]](2015-2016).
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| − | * [[Halldór Ásgrímsson]] (born 1947), [[Prime Minister of Iceland|prime minister of Iceland]] (2004–2006).
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| − | * [[Uffe Haagerup]] (born 1949), Danish mathematician.
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| − | * [[Peter Høeg]] (born 1957), Danish fiction writer, won international acclaim with ''[[Smilla's Sense of Snow]].''
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| − | * [[Morten Frost]] (born 1958), Danish world-class badminton player and coach.
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| − | * [[Mads Tofte]] (born 1959), computer scientist, vice chancellor of [[IT University of Copenhagen]].
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| − | * [[Ole Wæver]] (born 1960), scholar of International Relations, one of exponents of [[Copenhagen School (international relations)|Copenhagen School]].
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| − | * [[Steve Scully]] (born 1960), American host, senior producer, and political editor of the [[C-SPAN]] network's ''[[Washington Journal]]'' studied at the University of Copenhagen as part of his master's program at [[Northwestern University]] in [[Evanston, Illinois]].
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| − | * [[Corinna Cortes]] (born 1961), computer scientist.
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| − | * [[Lars Løkke Rasmussen]] (born 1964), [[Prime Minister of Denmark|prime minister of Denmark]] (2009–2011, 2015–2019).
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| − | * [[Lars Mikkelsen]] (born 1964), Danish actor.
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| − | * [[Bjørn Lomborg]] (born 1965), Danish economist, author of ''[[The Skeptical Environmentalist]]''.
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| − | * [[Helle Thorning-Schmidt]] (born 1966), [[Prime Minister of Denmark|prime minister of Denmark]] (2011–2015).
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| − | *[[Marie-Louise Nosch]] (born 1970), archaeologist; Professor in the university's Saxo Institute
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| − | * [[Eskild Ebbesen]] (born 1972), Danish world-class lightweight rower.
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| − | *[[Høgni Reistrup]] (born 1984), MA in Media Studies 2010 from the University of Copenhagen, co-writer of the book ''Exit Føroyar'' which created much debate in Denmark and the Faroe Islands about the decreasing population in the Faroe Islands.
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