University of Copenhagen Faculty of Science - The Seal

The Seal

The seal of the faculty contains the following text

Sigilum Facultatis Naturalis
Universitatis Hafniensis
Seal of the Faculty of Nature (i.e. Natural Science)
The University of Copenhagen

which is written in a circle around a stilized rendering of a hafnium atom. Hafnium was discovered at the Faculty in 1923 by Dirk Coster and Georg von Hevesy, and the name of the element is derived from Hafnia which is the Latin name for Copenhagen.

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