J. C. Jacobsen

The brewer behind Carlsberg created the Carlsberg Foundation in 1876 to fund science, and on his death in 1887 the brewery passed to it. Today the foundation holds a majority of the voting rights in Carlsberg A/S, with a smaller share of the capital, and uses its dividends to fund Danish research and culture. The Carlsberg Laboratory it supported is where the pH scale was devised.