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Map 7.

The U niversity A stronom ical Observatory.

The University Institute of Theoretical Physics, Blegdams- vej 15, is b uilt by the State, the money having been col­ lected privately. I t was inaugurated March 1921. The director is the pro­ fessor, B r. Niels Bohr, profes­ sor of theoretical physics in the University of Copenhagen. (Nobel Prize 1922). The In ­ stitu te was established, becau­ se it was recognized, th a t a fertile study of the theoreti­ cal physics problems hardly is possible except in connec­ tion with experimental inve­ stigations, for which, of cour­ se, a laboratory is necessary, equipped w ith instrum ents, workshop etc. The institu te gives instruc­ tion to advanced students of physics pt the university. A

number of Danish and foreign scientists p artly employed at the in stitute, p artly on visit for study are working with experimental investigations, chiefly concerning the compo­ sition of the atoms. W ith re­ gard to the experiments, the in stitu te in the first place is adapted to spectroscopic in­ vestigations of light-rays and Roentgen-rays. Thanks to a, gift from the Rockefeller In stitu tio n of New York is has been possible in 1925 to s ta rt a considerable enlargement of the institute. The University Astronomical Observatory, 0stervoldgade 3, next to the Botanical Garden. I t was formerly installed in the R undetaarn, b u t was mo­ ved in 1861 to the present buil-

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