Background
Lautrup, Benny Elley was born on June 25, 1939 in Copenhagen. Son of John Elley and Annette Hansine (Larsen) Lautrup.
Lautrup, Benny Elley was born on June 25, 1939 in Copenhagen. Son of John Elley and Annette Hansine (Larsen) Lautrup.
Master of Science, University Copenhagen, 1965.
He has during his career worked at Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (Denmark), Brookhaven National Laboratory (United States of America), European Organization of Nuclear Research (Switzerland), og 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 (original in Danish and also translated into German), and Physics of Continuous Matter: Exotic and Everyday Phenomena in the macroscopic World in 2005, and a second edition of this book was published in 2011.
He also writes popular articles about physics and participates in the public debate in Denmark (list of articles).
Married Birgit Olesen, January 6, 1962 (divorced). Children: Søren, Johannes, Simon. Married Birthe Østerlund, August 7, 1995.