Ole Christensen Rømer (; 25 September 1644, Århus – 19 September 1710, Copenhagen ) was a Danish astronomer who in 1676 made the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light.

There are few sources on Ole Rømer until his immatriculation in 1662 at the University of Copenhagen, at which his mentor was Rasmus Bartholin who published his discovery of the double refraction of a light ray by Iceland spar ( calcite ) in 1668, while Rømer was living in his home.

In 1681, Rømer returned to Denmark and was appointed professor of astronomy at the University of Copenhagen, and the same year he married Anne Marie Bartholin, the daughter of Rasmus Bartholin.

In 1705, Rømer was made the second Chief of the Copenhagen Police, a position he kept until his death in 1710.

After studies in Copenhagen, Rømer joined the observatory of Uraniborg on the island of Hven, near Copenhagen, in 1671.

* the Ole Rømer Medal, awarded by the president of the University of Copenhagen, 2001 ;

Rømer later discovered that differing standards for the Rhine foot existed, and in 1698 an iron Copenhagen standard was made.

As everybody is curious to see the battery of glass tubes I have invented, I have had quite a small one made here of four glass tubes ( in Copenhagen I used 30 ) and intend to carry it with me ''.

The Copenhagen Casino was a theatre, known for the use made of its hall for mass public meetings during the 1848 Revolution which made Denmark a constitutional monarchy.

He was made honorary doctor at the University of Copenhagen in 1924.

In 2010, the United Nations Environment Programme ( UNEP ) published a report on the voluntary emissions reduction pledges made as part of the Copenhagen Accord.

The Copenhagen Convention of 1857 abolished the Dues and made the Danish straits an international waterway.

Numerous recordings were made of live performances by Dolphy on this tour, in Copenhagen, Uppsala and other cities, and these have been issued by many sometimes dubious record labels, drifting in and out of print, though many if not all have been remastered and are readily available.

Having made Roman and Byzantine law his special study, he visited Paris in 1832 to examine Byzantine MSS., went in 1834 to Saint Petersburg and Copenhagen for the same purpose, and in 1835 worked in the libraries of Brussels, London, Oxford, Dublin, Edinburgh and Cambridge.

In October 1936 he gave his first lieder recital, and he made his opera début at the Royal Danish Theatre, Copenhagen, in Mozart's Così fan tutte in 1939.

Hornung of Copenhagen, Denmark, showed his single-cast ironframe for a piano, the first made in Europe.

An attempted remedy was made by chancellor Nils Brahe, who traveled to Copenhagen, in the spring of 1675, to try to get the Danish princess Ulrika Eleonora engaged to the Swedish king.

The press made much of his visits to strip clubs in Copenhagen at the time.

In 1960, a decision was made to move the College of Advanced Technology to new and larger facilities in Lyngby north of Copenhagen.

After a visit to Cyprus he made a tour through Palestine, crossed the Taurus Mountains to Brussa, reached Constantinople in February 1767 and finally arrived in Copenhagen in the following November.

When his residence at Roskilde burned down, Christopher moved to Copenhagen and made it the capital of Denmark.

During his reign Copenhagen was made permanently the capital of Denmark ( municipal charter of 1443 ).

* Spain — devices akin to Goldberg's machines are known as Inventos del TBO ( tebeo ), named after those that several cartoonists ( Nit, Tínez, Marino Benejam, Frances Tur and finally Ramón Sabatés ) made up and drew for a section in the TBO magazine, allegedly designed by some " Professor Franz " from Copenhagen.

Via Dresden and Copenhagen he made his way to Christiania ( Oslo ) where he for the first time saw Henrik Ibsen's liberation drama Peer Gynt on stage.

Under the administration of the Danish prime minister Count Bernstorff, himself from Schleswig, many reforms were carried out in the duchies, for example, abolition of torture and of serfdom ; at the same time Danish laws and coinage were introduced, and Danish was made the official language for communication with Copenhagen.

The Copenhagen government, which in May 1851 made an abortive attempt to come to an understanding with the inhabitants of the duchies by convening an assembly of notables at Flensburg, issued on December 6, 1851 a project for the future organisation of the monarchy on the basis of the equality of its constituent states, with a common ministry ; and on January 28, 1852 a royal letter announced the institution of a unitary state which, while maintaining the fundamental constitution of Denmark, would increase the parliamentary powers of the estates of the two duchies.

When in 1800 the University of Copenhagen had made the debate the subject of a competition, the Danish Romantic Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger expressed himself in favor of Norse mythology.

The name CoBrA is made up by Dotremont and is formed by the first letters of their hometowns: Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam.

The term ' Copenhagen interpretation ' suggests something more than just a spirit, such as some definite set of rules for interpreting the mathematical formalism of quantum mechanics, presumably dating back to the 1920s.

The first written set of team handball rules was published in 1906 by the Danish gym teacher, lieutenant and Olympic medalist Holger Nielsen from Ordrup grammar school north of Copenhagen.

In Copenhagen 1953 the French and English texts of the Rules were declared to be of equivalent official force and a declaration was approved to prepare a new compilation of the rules.

In 1793 the brothers decided to enter the University of Copenhagen ( founded in 1479 ) and the following spring found them at the university preparing to matriculate for the autumn session.

In 1803 Oersted returned to Copenhagen and applied for the university's chair in physics but was rejected because he was probably considered more a philosopher than a physicist.

Bohr was born in Copenhagen in 1922, and grew up surrounded by physicists such as Wolfgang Pauli and Werner Heisenberg, who were working with his father at the Institute for Theoretical Physics ( now the Niels Bohr Institute ) at the University of Copenhagen.

Aagesen was educated for the law at Christiania ( now Oslo ) and Copenhagen, and interrupted his studies in 1848 to take part in the First Schleswig War, in which he served as the leader of a reserve battalion.

Nimzowitsch eventually moved to Copenhagen in 1922, which coincided with his rise to the world chess elite, where he lived for the rest of his life in one small rented room.

A distant relative provided free board and lodging, and Erlang prepared for and took the University of Copenhagen entrance examination in 1896, and passed with distinction.

He maintained his interest in mathematics, and received an award for a paper that he submitted to the University of Copenhagen.

Erlang worked for the CTC ( KTAS ) from 1908 for almost 20 years, until his death in Copenhagen after an abdominal operation.

In 2002, Lomborg and the Environmental Assessment Institute founded the Copenhagen Consensus, which seeks to establish priorities for advancing global welfare using methodologies based on the theory of welfare economics.

There are some who say that there are objective variants of the Copenhagen Interpretation that allow for a " real " wave function, but it is questionable whether that view is really consistent with some of Bohr's statements.

Special censuses for Copenhagen were taken in 1885 and 1895.

Motorways are toll-free except for the Great Belt Bridge joining Zealand and Funen and the Øresund Bridge linking Copenhagen to Malmö in Sweden.

The general agreement is that Standard Danish is based on a form of Copenhagen dialect, but the specific norm, as with most language norms, is difficult to pinpoint for both laypeople and scholars.

Although several versions of many-worlds have been proposed since Hugh Everett's original work, they all contain one key idea: the equations of physics that model the time evolution of systems without embedded observers are sufficient for modelling systems which do contain observers ; in particular there is no observation-triggered wave function collapse which the Copenhagen interpretation proposes.

One problem for the Copenhagen interpretation is to precisely define wavefunction collapse.

Hafnium is named for Hafnia, the Latin name for " Copenhagen ", where it was discovered.

* A researcher from the University of Copenhagen pointed out that for years, IKEA has named their cheap rugs after Danish places, while the more expensive and luxurious furniture was named after Swedish places.

There are movements for considering Malmö as part of the Copenhagen metropolitan area or an even larger metropolitan area, which would be called Örestad in Swedish and Ørestad in Danish, since it would consist of all the towns around the Sound.

Besides the Copenhagen Airport, Malmö has an airport of its own, Malmö Airport, today chiefly used for low-cost carriers, charter flight routes, and domestic Swedish destinations.