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.

In 1806 his ambition was realized and he became professor of physics at the Copenhagen University, though not realizing full professorship ( ordinarius ) until 1817.

He was, however, fortunate in his contact with Prof. J. G. L. Manthey ( 1769-1842 ), teacher of chemistry, who, in addition to his academic chair, was also proprietor of the `` Lion Pharmacy '' in Copenhagen where Oersted assisted him.

He was granted lands by the crown, and built the first fortification of the city that evolved into modern-day Copenhagen.

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.

Another production was presented in January 1934 in Copenhagen at the Det ny Teater.

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.

At age 14, he passed the Preliminary Examination of the University of Copenhagen with distinction, after receiving dispensation to take it because he was younger than the usual minimum age.

He was a member of the Danish Mathematicians ' Association ( TBMI ) and through this met amateur mathematician Johan Jensen, the Chief Engineer of the Copenhagen Telephone Company ( KTAS in Danish ), an offshoot of the International Bell Telephone Company.

It was first published in Copenhagen on 4 December 1879, in an edition of 8, 000 copies that sold out within a month ; a second edition of 3, 000 copies followed on 4 January 1880 and a third edition of 2, 500 was issued on 8 March.

Bornholm was one of the three last Danish municipalities not belonging to a county — the others being Copenhagen and Frederiksberg.

For centuries it was stored in the Royal Library in Copenhagen but in 1971 it was returned to Iceland.

According to the understanding of quantum mechanics known as the Copenhagen interpretation, measurement causes an instantaneous collapse of the wave function describing the quantum system into an eigenstate of the observable state that was measured.

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

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.

It voyaged from Iceland to Bergen, Norway and was moved to Copenhagen, the University Library.

The Copenhagen manuscript was among the many valuables destroyed in the Copenhagen Fire of 1728.

* 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.

Lona Barrison, the oldest of the sisters had had fleeting theatre experience in Copenhagen as a young girl, and it was she who initially gravitated towards the theatre scene after the family settled in New York.

Holberg is considered the founder of modern Danish and Norwegian literature, and is best known for the comedies he wrote in 1722 – 1723 for the theatre in Lille Grønnegade in Copenhagen.

After taking his doctor's degree at Wittenberg ( 1810 ) he qualified at Copenhagen in 1811, with an essay on the origins of the ancient theatre, as a lecturer on ancient literature and history, on which he delivered lectures in Latin.

The theatre in Denmark continues to thrive thanks to the many theatres in Copenhagen and across the country which put on a wide variety of Danish and foreign performances.

* The Royal Danish Playhouse or Skuespilhuset, the main stage for dramatic theatre under The Royal Danish Theatre, Copenhagen

In the theatre, Burke originated the part of Niels Bohr in Michael Frayn's Copenhagen.

Already at the Copenhagen Castle, one of the wings was fitted out as a theatre.

* Gasværket-a theatre in Copenhagen which was formerly a huge gas holder

Failed as an actor, Bang earned fame as a theatre producer in Paris and in Copenhagen.

Born on 14 June 1937 in Århus, Denmark, he studied literature and anthropology in Århus and Copenhagen and was a cultural critic ( jazz, theatre, film ) for leading Danish newspapers from 1959 to 1968.

David Rush explores a sub-genre of theatre, a later hybrid form known as “ drama ,” which he describes as a piece which cannot be specifically categorized as a tragedy, but which he notes involves “ serious people going about serious business in a serious way .” Seeing as the characters in Copenhagen are already dead, they cannot suffer any tragic fall ; though there is definite wit in the arguments, it is taken in a very serious light seeing as it regards subjects like war, fear and nuclear arms.

Warming was a skillful and dedicated pedagogue, whose presentation of the subject was useful far beyond his lecture theatre in Copenhagen.

* The Boat Theatre-a lighter-type barge built in Copenhagen in 1898, since 1972 operated as a theatre boat.

Natural mummies are also known from Funk Island, and the eyes and internal organs of the last two birds from 1844 are stored in the Zoological Museum, Copenhagen.

The main entertainment area was to be known as Tivoli, after the entertainment area in Copenhagen.

Here he was commissioned to make the colossal series of statues of Christ and the twelve Apostles for the rebuilding of Vor Frue Kirke ( from 1922 known as the Copenhagen Cathedral ) between 1817 and 1829, after its having been destroyed in the British bombardment of Copenhagen in 1807.

During a visit to Copenhagen around 1559, he fell in love with Anna Tronds, known in English as Anna Throndsen and posthumously as Anna Rustung.

This perceived slight, known as the Telegram Crisis, greatly outraged Hitler and he immediately recalled his ambassador from Copenhagen and expelled the Danish ambassador from Germany.

In the 1970s the university was known for its very liberal education as opposed to the usual lectures provided by the more traditional universities of Copenhagen and Århus.

In March 1926, working in Niels Bohr's institute, Werner Heisenberg formulated the principle of uncertainty thereby laying the foundation of what became known as the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics.

Copenhagen was formerly known as " Mungers Mills.

Coincidentally, the gatekeepers of the royal palace of Copenhagen are known as svejtserne ( schweizerne ), " the Swiss ".

In Denmark, the Kongelige Nordiske Oldskriftselskab ( also known as La Société Royale des Antiquaires du Nord or the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries ) was founded at Copenhagen in 1825.

The reclaimed area is currently known as Kalvebod Fælled, and was originally a military area, but today it is part of a major construction area called the Ørestad, being thought of as an extension to central Copenhagen.

In Copenhagen the world's longest pedestrian shopping area, Strøget, has been developed over the last 40 years principally due to the work of Danish architect Jan Gehl, a principle of urban design known as copenhagenization.

The two universities are now faculties under the University of Copenhagen, and are now known as the Faculty of Life Sciences and the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences.

* 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.

The Copenhagen Statement, as it would come to be known, explained: " Our sense of duty compels us to state that the story is only a fairy tale.

Christiania, also known as Freetown Christiania () is a self-proclaimed autonomous neighbourhood of about 850 residents, covering in the borough of Christianshavn in the Danish capital Copenhagen.

In a recent speech at the Rotary International Convention, held at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Bruce Cohick stated that polio in all its known wild forms will be eliminated by late 2008, provided efforts in Nigeria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India all proceed with their current momentum.

G4S has its origins in a guarding business founded in Copenhagen in 1901 by Marius Hogrefe originally known as Kjøbenhavn Frederiksberg Nattevagt ( which translates as Copenhagen and Frederiksberg Night Watch ) and subsequently renamed Falck.

Finally, and technically outside the Copenhagen criteria, comes the further requirement that all prospective members must enact legislation in order to bring their laws into line with the body of European law built up over the history of the Union, known as the acquis communautaire.

During the twentieth century choirs have played an important role in the musical history of the Faroes, and some of the best known current choirs are Tarira, Havnarkórið, Tórshavnar Manskór, Ljómur, Fuglafjarðar Gentukór, and the choirs situated in Copenhagen, Húsakórið and Mpiri.