Hans Christian Ørsted Institute

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Buildings D, C and B (left to right) in the H. C. Ørsted Institute, as seen from Nørre Allé

Building E, which holds the Institute for Mathematical Sciences. Connected on both sides (by the A building), you see the B (left) and D buildings. The C building lies behind. (Rooftop showing.)

The Hans Christian Ørsted Institute at the University of Copenhagen is a building complex that houses the departments of Mathematics and Chemistry, as well as part of Physics. It is named after the physicist Hans Christian Ørsted (1777-1851), who discovered electromagnetism (1820) and was the first to isolate aluminium (1825). By students and staff the institute is commonly called simply "HCØ".

The complex is made up of 5 connected buildings: A, B, C, D and E.

Building A is a long connecting building, it's in ground, 1st floor and basement level and holds the canteen and auditories.

Building B is a 5 floor building, and holds facilities for inorganic (ground, 1st and 2nd level) and organic chemistry (3rd, 4th and 5th level). In the basement of the building is a mass spectrometry apparatus. Building C is a 5 floor building similar to building B and holds the sections for theoretical chemistry and spectroscopy. Building D is a 5 floor building similar to B and C, but this is dedicated to physics and is as such part of the Niels Bohr Institute. It holds the Ørsted Laboratory.

Building E is another type building, not as large as the other three. It holds the mathematical section.

Coordinates: 55°42′02″N, 12°33′40″E