Harald Wergeland, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Harald Wergeland

Norwegian physicist

Date of Birth: 14-Mar-1912

Place of Birth: Norderhov, Buskerud, Norway

Date of Death: 25-Jan-1987

Profession: engineer, professor, physicist, university teacher

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Harald Wergeland

  • Harald Nicolai Storm Wergeland (14 March 1912 – 25 January 1987) was a Norwegian physicist.
  • He was a professor at the Norwegian Institute of Technology. He was born in Norderhov as a son of forest manager Harald Nicolay Storm Wergeland (1884–1953) and Ebba Marie Weien (1889–1952).
  • In 1937 he married Hedvig Louise Ording, a sister of Fredrik Ording.He finished his secondary education in 1931.
  • He graduated as a chemical engineer from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1936 and earned the dr.philos.
  • degree in 1942.
  • He was briefly a teacher at Trondheim Commerce School before working as an assistant at the Norwegian Institute of Technology from 1939.Wergeland worked as a professor of physics from 1946 to 1979 at the Norwegian Institute of Technology, now the Norwegian University of Science and Technology at Gløshaugen.
  • He also served as associate professor at Purdue University from 1948 to 1949.
  • Wergeland participated in the foundation of CERN and was a leading member of Pugwash in Norway.He served as praeses of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters from 1958 to 1965.
  • He was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1943, the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters from 1964 and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
  • He was decorated as a Knight, First Class of the Order of St.
  • Olav in 1960 and received the Gunnerus Medal in 1970.

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