Aarhus University (abbr.

Abbreviation

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: AU), located in the city of Aarhus

Aarhus

Aarhus or Århus is the second-largest city in Denmark. The principal port of Denmark, Aarhus is on the east side of the peninsula of Jutland in the geographical center of Denmark...

, Denmark

Denmark

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, is Denmark's second oldest and second largest university

University

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. The university was founded in 1928 and has over 32,000 students.

Aarhus University belongs to the international elite; in four prestigious ranking lists of the world's best universities, Aarhus University is placed in the top 100. AU is also listed at number 2 out of universities in Scandinavian and Nordic countries.

Denmark's first professor of sociology

Sociology

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 was a member of the faculty of Aarhus University (Theodor Geiger

Theodor Geiger

Theodor Julius Geiger was a German socialist lawyer and sociologist. He was Denmark's first professor of sociology, at the University of Åarhus.- Life :...

, from 1938–1952), and in 1997 Professor Jens Christian Skou

Jens Christian Skou

Jens Christian Skou is a Danish chemist and Nobel laureate.Skou was born in Lemvig, Denmark to a wealthy family. His father Magnus Martinus Skou was a timber and coal merchant. His mother Ane-Margrethe Skou took over the company after the death of his father. At the age of 15 Skou entered a...

 received the Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize

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 in Chemistry

Chemistry

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 for his discovery of the sodium-potassium pump.