Ebba Lund (22 September 1923 – 21 June 1999) was a Danish Resistance fighter during World War II, a chemical engineer, and a microbiologist.
Ebba Lund was born in 1923 to parents Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (1875–1956) and Anna Petrea Lindberg (1890–1980).
[2][3] Lund worked for Frit Danmark (Free Denmark), a voguish clandestine newspaper, which would go on to publish over six million copies by the end of World War II.
[2][3] After the collapse of the Danish government, Lund went on to join Holger Danske, a sabotage-oriented Resistance group.
[3] Upon joining the Holger Danske resistance group, she became responsible for fishing boats that would secretly bring Jews to safety.
[2] Due to connections on the nearby island of Christianso, Lund was able to organize almost a dozen fishing boats for the transportation of Jews to Sweden.
[1][2] In 1963, Lund presented her dissertation resulting from this work entitled Oxidative Inactivation of Poliovirus for her Ph.D. at the University of Copenhagen.
[1] Lund became the head of the Department of Virology and Immunology at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University in Copenhagen in 1966.
[1] With the help of the Danish Fur Breeders, she developed the world's first economically viable antigen that could diagnose plasmacytosis, a disease that is very common in minks.
[1] Lund was an incredibly prolific scientist; she published 124 works in her lifetime, including 84 in English, as well as a lecture series and other content.
[1][2] Coupled with this association, she was the first in the world to produce an effective antigen in cell cultures that diagnosed the disease plasmacytosis.
[6] She gave an oral history interview about her war time experiences to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1994.