Piet Hein (Denmark)

Piet Hein (December 16, 1905 - April 18, 1996) was a scientist, mathematician, inventor, author, and poet, often writing under the Old Norse pseudonym "Kumbel" meaning "tombstone". His short poems, gruks (or grooks), first started to appear in the daily newspaper "Politiken" shortly after the Nazi Occupation in April 1940 under the signature Kumbel Kumbell.

Biography

He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. He studied at the Institute for Theoretical Physics of the University of Copenhagen (later to become the Niels Bohr Institute), and Technical University of Denmark. Yale awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1972. He died in his home on Funen, Denmark in 1996.

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Copenhagen - Denmark - University of Copenhagen - Niels Bohr Institute - Technical University of Denmark - Yale - 1972 - Funen - 1996

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He was a direct descendant of Piet Hein, the Dutch naval hero of the 16th century.

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Piet Hein - 16th century

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