The University is one of the oldest in Scandinavia, founded in 1479. It has almost 45,000 students spread over 4 campuses around the city, in virtually all fields of studies and offering many advanced degrees.
This photo is of the main University Building located at Frue Plads in the city’s Latin Quarter. Much of the city, including the university, was destroyed by the British bombardment in 1807. This new building was inaugurated in 1836.
Located outside the buildings on short pillars are busts of some of its most famous professors. The only one I recognized was Niels Bohr, the famous Nobel-prize winning physicist who made important contributions to our understanding of atomic structure and quantum theory.
The most interesting pillar was the one below, a tribute to Inge Lehman. She was a seismologist and geophysicist who discovered that the earth had a solid inner core, surrounded by an outer molten core, which she deduced in 1936 by using seismic wave data.
Professor Lehman lived to the age of 104, the product of fine Danish genes.
