Finn Salomonsen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Danish ornithologist
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Place of Birth: Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
About Finn Salomonsen
- Finn Salomonsen (31 January 1909 – 23 April 1983) was a Danish ornithologist.
- He is best known for his work on the birds of Greenland. His interest in Greenland began at the age of 16 when he made a trip with Lehn Schioler to the Upernavik District.
- He obtained a degree in zoology in 1932 and joined as a zoological assistant in the Danish Nature Reserves.
- He worked on migration of birds and moulting patterns extensively.
- During World War II he fled to Sweden with his family to escape persecution.Salomonsen's work included over scientific publications, and authorship or co-authorship of 19 books.
- Apart from research in the Greenland and Arctic region, he went on expeditions to the Philippines (1951–1952) and to the Bismarck Archipelago, New Guinea (Noona Dan expedition, 1962).
- He was editor of the Dansk Ornithologisk Forenings Tidsskrift from 1942 to 1961. Finn Salomonsen was father of the Danish rock-singer Sanne Salomonsen (born 1955).
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