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23 unusual facts about Lund University


Aage Skavlan

He was given a royal scholarship in 1877 to conduct studies at the University of Copenhagen and Lund University, and in 1878 he published his first book Historiske Billeder fra den nyere Tid i Danmark, Norge og tildels Sverige.

Berlinite

It was first described in 1868 for an occurrence in the Västanå iron mine, Scania, Sweden and named for Nils Johan Berlin (1812–1891) of Lund University.

BRE Centre for Fire Safety Engineering

The joint degree started in September 2010 and involves the universities of Edinburgh (UK), Ghent (Belgium) and Lund (Sweden).

Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University

The center for MIddle Eastern studies (CMES) was founded in 2007 on behalf of a new effort to conduct and coordinate research on the Middle East within Lund University.

Christian B. Apenes

After studying at Lund University in 1926 he worked three years as a deputy judge in Nordre Sunnmøre District Court.

Christian Grönroos

Between 2001 and 2007 he served as Guest Professor of Service Management at Lund University Sweden.

Dahlella

The generic name Dahlella commemorates the biologist Erik Dahl of the University of Lund.

Dental implant

During his research time at Lund University he adopted the Cambridge designed "rabbit ear chamber" for use in the rabbit femur.

Hans Ragnemalm

Ragnemalm became Professor of Public Law at Lund University, and later Professor of Public Law and Dean of the Law Faculty at the University of Stockholm.

Haraldur Vignir Sveinbjörnsson

He finished his BA degree in composition at Reykjavik Music College 2001 with Hilmar Þórðarson, and MMus degree in composition at Lund University (Malmö Music University) where he studied with Kent Olofsson and Prof. Luca Francesconi.

Hövding

The invention was initially created as part of a thesis project for the founders' Master of Industrial Design at the Faculty of Engineering at Lund University in Sweden.

Nasothek

"Nasoteket" at Lund University in Sweden consists of a display of more than 100 plaster casts of noses, including a cast of the silver nose of Tycho Brahe.

National Institute of Technology, Durgapur

In 17–20 February 2011, the Civil Engineering department of the Institute (in association with Lund University, Sweden) organised another international conference on Water Resources & Adaptation to climate changes.

On 17–20 February 2011, the Civil Engineering department (in association with Lund University, Sweden) organised an International Conference on Water Resources & Adaptation to climate changes.

Praveen Mayakar

After the short stint at Bombardier, Praveen applied for a Masters course in Lund University, Sweden.

Richard Normann

Normann received his MBA and then PhD in Business Economics in 1975 at Lund University, leading to a professorship.

Scalado

Scalado was founded in 2000 at Ideon Science Park in Lund, Sweden by former students from Lund's University, Sami Niemi and Pierre Elzouki.

Script kiddie

In 1999, a legal researcher working for Lund University in Sweden was reported to the police as having a large number of pornographic images, including child pornography, on his university computer.

Student orientation

This is most extensive at the technical faculties and at the student nation communities of Uppsala and Lund.

Ununpentium

A team of researchers at Lund University announced they had corroborated the 2004 findings in August 2013 by shooting calcium ions into a thin film of americium.

Víctor Nee

He was awarded an honorary doctorate in Economics by Lund University in Sweden in 2013.

Wilhelm Heintze

He served as organist of the St. Jacob Parish in Stockholm from 1881–89, and as the Lund University Music Director and cathedral organist in Lund from 1889–95.

William G. Roll

Roll received a Ph.D. in psychology from Lund University in 1989 for a thesis entitled, "This World or That: An Examination of Parapsychological Findings Suggestive of the Survival of Human Personality After Death".


Arkiv för nordisk filologi

Arkiv för nordisk filologi, also spelt Arkiv for nordisk filologi, is an annual academic journal of Old Norse and older Scandinavian studies, published by Lund University.

George Shevelov

He was one of the founders and president of the émigré scholarly organization “Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences” (1959–61, 1981–86) and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Alberta (1983) and Lund University (1984).

Hani Rashid

Rashid's academic career includes visiting professorships at several universities, including the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) in Los Angeles, the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, the Berlage Institute in Amsterdam, the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) and the Lund University.

Knut Lundmark

Knut Emil Lundmark (14 June 1889 – 23 April 1958) was a Swedish astronomer, professor of astronomy and head of the observatory at Lund University 1929–1955.

Martin Wiberg

Martin Wiberg (September 4, 1826 - December 29, 1905) was born in Viby, Scania, Sweden, enrolled at Lund University in 1845 and became a Doctor of Philosophy in 1850.

Swedish Museum of Natural History

Another important name in the history of the Museum is the zoologist, paleontologist and archaeologist Sven Nilsson, who brought the previously disorganised zoological collections of the Museum into order during his time as keeper (1828–1831) before returning to Lund as professor.

Then Swänska Argus

Dalin was a keen student of language, combining linguistic influences from his childhood in the southern Swedish province of Halland, his school years at the Lund University and his later employment at the Royal Court of Sweden.

Thomas Thorild

His original name was Thomas Thorén and he studied at Lund University in Sweden and worked or studied at the University of Greifswald in Germany.

Wind Erosion on European Light Soils

WEELS was a collaborative project between University College London, the Geological Survey of Lower Saxony (Niedersächsisches Landesamt für Bodenforschung) at the Institute of Soil Technology, Bremen, Lund University, and Wageningen University.