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19 Tfeim o f office for professors of physics, chemistry and mathema­ tics at Copenhagen University since 1800.

List of obituary notices on the deceased professors.

20 Tfhe H. C. Oersted Institute.

The new H. G. Oersted Institute, situated in new grounds belonging to the University, is described in pictures and in the text, also on the back of the book. A list of people employed in the spring of 1965 is added. These were glimpses from the development - throughout 150 years - from Skidenstræde to the H. C. Oersted Institute in the new University Grounds. When H. C. Oersted, at the age of forty-three, made his world- famous discovery of electromagnetism, he had been professor of physics at Copenhagen University for 14 years. When discovering how to produce free aluminium metal, Oersted had, moreover, been university professor of chemistry for 18 years. Thus it was only natural that Copenhagen University wanted to honour the name o f Oersted by calling its new, large institute for the exact science after him. Not until he had been working for 23 years as professor of the University the fifty-two-year old H. C. Oersted succeeded in having The technical University founded. (in 1829). His sphere of action was then increased to the position of principal and pro­ fessor of physics at the Technical University, and he also worked here until his death in 1851.

Addenda Proposals of local town historical nature suggesting the erection of memorial plaques at places where Oersted worked.

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