Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1951-06-18
Introducing Scandinavia
Denmark
WHO'S WHO IN DENMARK

WIN > VIM IN len MANN
Poulsen, Valdemar (1s69-1942) 4.
Engineer and inventor. Studied
medicine originally, but his inter
est in chemistry and physics made
him change over to engineering
He soon, however. gave up theor-
etical studies, was apprenticed at
machine factory and subsequent
ly employed by the technical de-
partment of the Copenhagen Tele-
phone Company. Here he con-
structed combination of the tele-
phone and photograph = the tel
egraphone." for which he was
awarded the Grand prix" at the
Worlds Exhibition of Paris in
1900. He worked at that invention
together with the engineer p. o.
Petersen, and their constructions
of fundamental Importance for
the development of wireless teleg-
raphy and telephony, have since
been adopted in the majority of
the countries of the world.
The Technical High School of
Denmark made Valdemar Poulsen
doctor of technology. honoris cav
sd, and he was a member of the
Royal Academy Of Sciences and
Letters and the Academy of Tech
meal Sciences, who also on his 10Th
birthday instituted a "Valdemar
Poulsen Gold Medal"
Jensen, Johannes V. (born 1879
Writer. born in Jutland. Studied
medicine, but gave up his studies
to devote himself wholly to litera-
ture and has up till now produced
some 90 volumes, all bearing the
impress of his numerous and long
travels in all the quarters of the
world, his extensive and thorough
studies and his great talent for
language-renewal.-His first books
Danes" (1S96) and 'Einar Elk
aar" (1s9sl -where he argues that
the Danish mind is split, because
I'VE feel with Rousseau, but think
with Edison" arouses more than
ordinary interest, and with his
great historic novel The Fall of
the King" (1901) he established
his reputation as great writer.
In quick succession follow now his
books 'Himmermerland Tales"
"Intermez1o;" &c thic Renais-
sance"; he declares was on aesthet-
les and finds the power Of mans
spirit expressed in the constant
technical development. His novels
Madame dora" and The Wheel"
bear throughout the stamp of his
stay and studies in the U.S.A- and
expound his personal evolutionistic
theories as to racial types and
races. The long Voyage" nov
ell of evolutionary history, plan
ned on very broad lines, deals,
briefly speaking, with the evolu-
ton Of the Northern Race from
the Glacial Age until the advent
of Christianity. Johannes v. Jen-
sen is the greatest representative
Of that change in taste and outlook
on life which sets in about the 6e-
ginning Of the century; in 1915 he
was awarded the Nobel Prize in
Literature.
Krogh, Aug. (oorn 1874. Phys
iologist Graduated as master of
science in zoology in 1899 and got
his doctor degree four years later
with a thesis based upon re-
search into The Skinand Luna
respiration of Frogs" Immediate
j. after lis graduation il- was en-
gagged for work at a physiological
laboratory belonging under the
faculty OF Medicine: in 1908 he was
appointed lecturer and in 1915 &c
ceived the professorate Of animal
+ physiology while at the same time
means were placed at his disposal
+ for the establishment of a labora-
tory for animal physiology. OF
very great Importance is his dem
onstration Of the fact that the
f hlood-filling OF the muscles is very
variable and entirely dependent on
F the work Of the muscles. piece
OF research work which in 1920
was rewarded with the Nobel
/ Prize in medicine.