Benny Lautrup

Benny Lautrup (born June 25, 1939) is a professor in theoretical physics at the Niels Bohr International Academy under the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen. He has during his career worked at Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (Denmark), Brookhaven National Laboratory (USA), CERN (Switzerland), og Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (France). He is, among other things, known for his part in the Nakanishi-Lautrup formalism, a concept in relativistic quantum field theory. He has published two books: Neural Networks -- Computers with Intuition (with Søren Brunak; original in Danish and also translated into German), and Physics of Continuous Matter: Exotic and Everyday Phenomena in the macroscopic World (2005). He also writes popular articles about physics and has participated in the public debate in Denmark.