of Haifa and President of the College of Judea and Samaria ("Ariel College"). Johannes Schmidt Marianne Schroll (born 1942), geriatrician Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher (1757–1830) Birte Siim (born 1945), political scientist specializing in gender studies Jens Christian Skou, chemist and Nobel Prize laureate 1997 Nicolas Steno / Niels Stensen (1638–1686), geologist, anatomist Bjarne Stroustrup (1950–), C++ (lives in the US) Bengt Strömgren (1908–1987) Bent Erik Sørensen (1941–), physicist and researcher into renewable energy Søren Peder Lauritz Sørensen (1868–1939), chemist Thorvald Sørensen (1902–1973), botanist Thorvald N. Thiele (1883–1910), astronomer, actuary and mathematician, most notable for his work in statistics, interpolation and the three-body problem Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, archaeologist, inventor of the three-age system Bjarne Tromborg (1940–), physicist Eugen Warming (1841–1924), ecologist and botanist Caspar Wessel (1745–1818), Norwegian-Danish mathematician Jacob B. Winsløw (1669–1760) Ole Worm (1588–1654) Hans Christian Ørsted (1777–1851), physicist, discoverer of electromagnetism, speed of light Ida Ørskov (1922–2007), bacteriologist Sports Writers Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875), Fairy Tales Hansine Andræ (1817–1898), feminist diarist Jens Immanuel Baggesen (1764–1826) Karen Blixen (aka Isak Dinesen) (1885–1962), author (Out of Africa, Seven Gothic Tales) Georg Brandes (1842–1927) Suzanne Brøgger (1944–), novelist and essayist Tove Ditlevsen (1918–1976), poet and author Bent Faurby (1937–), children's writer Kate Fleron (1909–2006), journal editor, resistance member Piet Hein (1905–1996) Dagmar Hjort (1860–1902), schoolteacher, writer and women's rights activist Peter Høeg (1957–), author Bernhard Severin Ingemann (1789–1862) novelist, poet and hymn writer FP Jac (1955–2008), poet Jens Peter Jacobsen (1847–1885), novelist (Niels Lyhne) Thit Jensen (1876–1957), writer and worker for women's suffrage Dorthe Jørgensen (1959–), philosopher and educator, first Danish woman to be awarded the honorary Dr.Phil Christian Jungersen (1962–) Hans Kirk (1898–1962), author Cornelia von Levetzow (1836–1921), popular novelist Hulda Lütken (1896–1946), poet and novelist Bodil Neergaard (1867–1959), estate owner, philanthropist, memoirist Martin Andersen Nexø (1869–1954), writer (Pelle, the Conqueror) Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger (1779–1850) Henrik Pontoppidan, author and Nobel Prize laureate Jacob Riis (1849–1914), photographer, journalist and social activist in the US Edith Rode (1879–1956), novelist and journalist Alba Schwartz (1857–1942), novelist Ingeborg Maria Sick (1858–1951), novelist and biographer Tage Skou-Hansen (1925–), novels include De nøgne træer (The Naked Trees) Carl Erik Soya (1896–1993), author, playwright, poet, satirist Villy Sørensen (1929–2001), author Dan Turéll (1946–1993), author Fanny Tuxen (1832–1906), children's writer Johannes Østrup (1867–1938), philologist, educator, writer Other notables Andreas Aagesen (1826–1879), jurist Jette Albinus (1966–), first female general in the Danish army Vibeke Ammundsen (1913–1988), librarian, head of Denmark's