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Mathematicians from Denmark
This page contains a list of the greatest Danish Mathematicians. The pantheon dataset contains 1,004 Mathematicians, 8 of which were born in Denmark. This makes Denmark the birth place of the 24th most number of Mathematicians behind Romania and Canada.
Top 8 Mathematicians
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Danish Mathematicians of all time. This list of famous Danish Mathematicians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
- #1

Harald Bohr
1887 - 1951
HPI 67.9338 langsHarald Bohr is most famous for his work on atomic theory. He was the first to propose that electrons orbit the nucleus in quantized orbits....Read moreShow less
Harald Bohr is most famous for his work on atomic theory. He was the first to propose that electrons orbit the nucleus in quantized orbits. He also proposed that electrons only have a certain amount of energy that they can absorb or emit, which is called the Bohr model.
Overlapping Lives
Which Mathematicians were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 7 most globally memorable Mathematicians since 1700.

