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About Tor Fredrik Rasmussen
- Tor Fredrik Rasmussen (2 March 1926 – 18 May 2017) was a Norwegian geographer. He was born in Flekkefjord.
- After finishing his secondary education he studied at the University of Oslo and worked as a geodesist in the Norwegian Geological Survey.
- He graduated with the mag.art.
- degree in 1952, and after spells as research assistant at the University of Oslo and research fellow at NAVF he was hired as a lecturer at the University of Oslo in 1960.
- From 1965 to 1969 he worked at the Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research.Rasmussen took the fil.dr.
- degree at Lund University in 1967, and was hired there as a docent the following year.
- Already the same year he became professor at the Nordiska institutet för samhällsplanering.
- After a stint at the Oslo City Planning Office from 1975 to 1981 he served as a professor of geography at the University of Oslo from 1981.Rasmussen was an expert on economic geography and urban planning.
- He also conducted research travels in Ethiopia and India in the 1950s, resulting in several publications on India.
- He was also secretary and chairman of the Norwegian-Indian Society from 1959 to 1965.
- He chaired the Norwegian Housing and City Planning Association from 1981 to 1984. He resided in Bærum and died at 91 years of age.
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