Science
The brilliant contributions to atomic physics of Niels Bohr (1885–1962), quantum physics and the stopping of light, and advances in nano-technology, as well as contributions to the understanding of Bose-Einstein Condensates by Lene Vestergaard Hau (1959-); the contributions to linguistics by Rasmus Rask (1787-1832), Otto Jespersen (1860 –1943) and Vilhelm Thomsen (1842-1927); Ludwig A. Colding's (1815–1888) neglected articulation of the principle of conservation of energy, the pioneering work in anatomy and geology by Nicolas Steno (1638–1686), and the astronomical discoveries of Tycho Brahe (1546–1601) and Ole Rømer (1644-1710) indicate the range of Danish scientific achievement.
Danes have made significant contributions to the field of computer science. Some notable figures include: Per Brinch Hansen, known for concurrent programming theory; Bjarne Stroustrup, who invented the C++ programming language; Janus Friis, the co-inventor of Skype; Jens and Lars Rasmussen, the co-founders of Google Maps; and Peter Naur, a contributor to ALGOL 60 and a receipant of the Turing Award
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“You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the most bigoted of obstructionists in science itself. When it comes to getting a move on you are all of the same opinion: stop it, flog it, hang it, dynamite it, stamp it out.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“It is not too much to say that next after the passion to learn there is no quality so indispensable to the successful prosecution of science as imagination. Find me a people whose early medicine is not mixed up with magic and incantations, and I will find you a people devoid of all scientific ability.”
—Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)
“Everything in science depends on what one calls an aperçu, on becoming aware of what is at the bottom of the phenomena. Such becoming aware is infinitely fertile.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)