Technical University of Denmark
The Technical University of Denmark, often simply referred to as DTU, is a polytechnic university and school of engineering. It was founded in 1829 at the initiative of Hans Christian Ørsted as Denmark's first polytechnic, and it is today ranked among Europe's leading engineering institutions. It is located in the town Kongens Lyngby, 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) north of central Copenhagen, Denmark.
R/V Dana is DTU's research vessel, visiting Ystad 18 November 2016.
The Center for Electron Nanoscopy at the Lyngby campus.
Main building in Lyngby.
Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy seen from Roskilde Fjord: The two cylindrical buildings outermost on the peninsula contained the two nuclear reactors DR-2 and DR-3. The red-white meteorological tower is 117 m high.
Hans Christian Ørsted was a Danish physicist and chemist who discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields, which was the first connection found between electricity and magnetism. Oersted's law and the oersted unit (Oe) are named after him.
Hans Christian Ørsted
The young H. C. Ørsted
Statue of Ørsted at Oxford
Portrait of Hans Christian Ørsted by Christian Albrecht Jensen (1842)
