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Physicist Benny Lautrup has got Alzheimer’s. Slowly, stubbornly, the disease eats in to the acuity of mind that made him a professor. The poor boy from the working class Istedgade district in Copenhagen, who ended up as a recognised scientist, is used to standing up to adversity.
The Niels Bohr Institute is to make a DKK 5 million payroll cut. Partly because the scientists have been good at getting research funding from councils and foundations.
The University of Copenhagen is likely to have to pay a substantial rent increase on the Niels Bohr Building from government after construction delays and a cost overrun of at least DKK 1.3 billion. Minister for Higher Education and Research Søren Pind will not guarantee that the university will not have extra costs.
Anja C. Andersen has been promoted to professor with communication responsibility at the Niels Bohr Institute.
By combining measurements of gravitational waves and observations of light, the scientists have discovered and described a clash between two neutron stars. Analyses of light from the explosion - called a kilonova - show the creation of heavy elements, solving an older scientific problem.
We cannot plan our work, says an associate professor and staff representative for 250 employees at the Niels Bohr Institute. He predicts that the delays on the University of Copenhagen's coming laboratories will cost research funding grants. Union calls for a clarification of the construction process.
Three scientists from the University of Copenhagen have each received nearly DKK 40 million for their technical and scientific research.
