Jens Lindhard

Jens Lindhard (26 February 1922 – 15 October 1997) was a Danish physicist and professor at Aarhus University working on condensed matter physics, statistical physics and special relativity. He was the president of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters between 1981 and 1988. He was the youngest son of six, consisting of four girls and two boys.

Research During his university years, he worked under the supervision of Oskar Klein in Sweden on superconductivity, publishing his first major work on the subject in 1944.

In 1950, he worked in close collaboration with Niels Bohr in Blegdamsvej on the penetration of particles in matter. Later Lindhard would provide a solution to the controversy related to the transformation of temperature in special relativity.

Lindhard moved to Aarhus University in 1957 in collaboration with experimentalist Karl Ove Nielsen, where he created and led a research group to study the penetration of charged particles in crystal lattices.

Awards and membership Jens Lindhard received several awards including: the Rigmor and Carl Holst-Knudsen Award for Scientific Research in 1965 the H. C. Ørsted Medal in 1974 the Danish Physical Society Physics award in 1988 Honorary Doctorate degrees from Odense University in 1996 and Fudan University, Shanghai, in 1997 Jens Linhard was member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters and a member of the since 1962. We was president of the Royal Society from 1981–1988. He was also member of the Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen since 1984.