The Niels Bohr Institute is the unification of the four previous institutes for the physical sciences at Copenhagen University: The Astronomical Observatory, The Ørsted Laboratory, The Geophysical Institute and The Niels Bohr Institute.

The fusion took effect from the 1st of January 1993 to strengthen the physics teaching and research capabilities of the University. Research at the institute now spans astronomy, geophysics, particle physics, quantum mechanics, nanotechnology and biophysics.

The Institute houses 10 research groups and 12 science centres. The Institute has 145 full-time and project-based academic staff, 95 technical staff and 85 PhD-students, as well as approximately 130 foreign researchers a year. The number of physics students is 710.

Scientific research is done in collaboration with many leading international research groups.

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Today's global warming follows more than 1000 years of colder climates
- 22-04-2013
- A new international study of past climate shows that the global temperature was getting colder and colder for more than 1000 years until the year 1900, after which global warming raised the temperature significantly in just... … »
Researchers close to finding habitable planets
- 18-04-2013
- Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute and Aarhus University are part of a team that has discovered a planetary system with five small planets of which two are super-Earth sized and lie in the habitable zone. … »