Karl Gustaf Patrik de Laval (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈɡɵ̂sːtav dɛ laˈvalː]; born May 9, 1845; died February 2, 1913) was a Swedish engineer and inventor. He helped design steam turbines and machines used to separate liquids from milk in dairy production.
Lars Magnus Ericsson (Swedish pronunciation: [lɑːʂ ˈmǎŋːnɵs ˈêːrɪkˌsɔn]; born May 5, 1846; died December 17, 1926) was a Swedish inventor, business owner, and founder of Ericsson, a company that makes telephone equipment. The company was officially established as Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson.
Svante August Arrhenius ( / ə ˈ r iː n i ə s , ə ˈ r eɪ n i ə s / ə- REE -nee-əs, - RAY – , Swedish: [ˈsvânːtɛ aˈrěːnɪɵs] ; 19 February 1859 – 2 October 1927) was a Swedish scientist. He began his career as a physicist but is often called a chemist. Arrhenius helped create the field of physical chemistry.
Bjarke Bundgaard Ingels (Danish pronunciation: [ˈpjɑːkə ˈpɔnkɒ ˈe̝ŋˀl̩s]; born October 2, 1974) is a Danish architect and the founder and creative partner of Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG). In Denmark, Ingels became famous for designing two housing complexes in Ørestad: VM Houses and Mountain Dwellings. In 2006, he started Bjarke Ingels Group, which had 400 employees by 2015.
Jan Utzon was born in 1944 and is a Danish architect. He is the son of Jørn Utzon, a well-known architect with whom he worked on several important projects. Jan has also designed several important buildings, including the Performing Arts Centre in Esbjerg.
Henning Larsen Hon. FAIA (20 August 1925 – 22 June 2013) was a Danish architect. He is well-known around the world for designing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building in Riyadh and the Copenhagen Opera House.
Jørn Oberg Utzon AC (Danish: [ˈjɶɐ̯ˀn ˈut.sʌn]; 9 April 1918 – 29 November 2008) was a Danish architect. In 1957, he won an international competition for designing the Sydney Opera House in Australia. He finished his changed design in 1961.
Peter Naur (October 25, 1928, to January 3, 2016) was a Danish scientist who made important contributions to computer science. He received the Turing Award in 2005 for his work. He is best known for helping John Backus develop the Backus–Naur form (BNF), a system used to describe the rules for writing code in many programming languages.
Thorvald Nicolai Thiele was born on December 24, 1838, and died on September 26, 1910. He was a Danish astronomer and the director of the Copenhagen Observatory. He was also an actuary and mathematician, best known for his work in statistics, interpolation, and the three-body problem.
Axel Thue (Norwegian: [tʉː]; February 19, 1863 – March 7, 1922) was a Norwegian mathematician. He is known for his original work in diophantine approximation and combinatorics.