Tor Ørvig, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Tor Ørvig

Swedish scientist

Date of Birth: 27-Sep-1916

Place of Birth: Bergen, Hordaland, Norway

Date of Death: 27-Feb-1994

Profession: zoologist, paleontologist

Nationality: Norway, Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Tor Ørvig (1916–1994) was a Norwegian-born Swedish paleontologist who explored the histology of early vertebrates.
He was professor at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm and member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
He described a possible post-Cretaceous coelacanth fossil from the Paleocene epoch.