Benny Lautrup

Benny Lautrup (1940–2025) was an eminent Denmark figure whose career in sciences left an enduring mark on national and global culture. Over decades of dedicated public service and professional excellence, Benny exemplified integrity, innovation, and leadership.

Benny Lautrup was a Danish academic who was a professor in theoretical physics at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen. During his career he has worked at the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (Denmark), Brookhaven National Laboratory (USA), CERN (Switzerland), and the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (France). He is known for his part in the Nakanishi-Lautrup formalism, a concept in relativistic quantum field theory. He has published the books Neural Networks – Computers with Intuition with Søren Brunak and also translated into German), and Physics of Contin...

The passing of Benny Lautrup on 2025-01-03 marked the close of a transformative chapter, inspiring future generations across Denmark and around the world to uphold the values of excellence, empathy, and enduring accomplishment.