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Tfeim o f office for professors of physics, chemistry and mathema
tics at Copenhagen University since 1800.
List of obituary notices on the deceased professors.
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Tfhe H. C. Oersted Institute.
The new H. G. Oersted Institute, situated in new grounds belonging
to the University, is described in pictures and in the text, also on
the back of the book. A list of people employed in the spring of
1965 is added.
These were glimpses from the development - throughout 150
years - from Skidenstræde to the H. C. Oersted Institute in the
new University Grounds.
When H. C. Oersted, at the age of forty-three, made his world-
famous discovery of electromagnetism, he had been professor of
physics at Copenhagen University for 14 years. When discovering
how to produce free aluminium metal, Oersted had, moreover,
been university professor of chemistry for 18 years. Thus it was
only natural that Copenhagen University wanted to honour the
name o f Oersted by calling its new, large institute for the exact
science after him.
Not until he had been working for 23 years as professor of the
University the fifty-two-year old H. C. Oersted succeeded in
having The technical University founded. (in 1829). His sphere
of action was then increased to the position of principal and pro
fessor of physics at the Technical University, and he also worked
here until his death in 1851.
Addenda
Proposals of local town historical nature suggesting the erection of
memorial plaques at places where Oersted worked.
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