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Place of Birth: Tvedestrand, Aust-Agder, Norway
About Rolf Brahde
- Carl Rolf Brahde (15 March 1918 – 25 May 2009) was a Norwegian astronomer. He was born in Tvedestrand as Carl Rolf Henriksen.
- He was the son of teacher Bredo Henriksen (1888–1974) and Edna Lucy Brahde Davidsen (1891–1967).
- He changed his last name to Brahde in 1933.
- He finished his secondary education in Skien in 1937, and enrolled at the University of Oslo in the same year.
- His studies were interrupted by World War II.
- He fought in the Norwegian Campaign in 1940, and during the subsequent German occupation of Norway he was a member of the clandestine resistance group XU.
- He was eventually discovered, but fled to Sweden in 1944.
- He was decorated with the Defence Medal 1940 – 1945.
- He continued his studies in Stockholm, and was an assistant for Bertil Lindblad at Stockholm Observatory from 1944 to 1946.
- He then returned to Norway and graduated with the cand.real.
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- He was married to Luisa Aall Barricelli, a daughter of Marna Aall and professor Maurizio Barricelli, from 1948 to 1961.
- Brahde married stenographer Elsie Unn Axelsen in 1963.Already one year after graduating, in 1948, Brahde was hired as observer at the University of Oslo.
- In this position, he was responsible for the construction of Harestua Solar Observatory north of Oslo.
- He lectured in celestial mechanics and spherical astronomy, and also researched optics related to astronomical instruments as well as calculating the tidal force and the lunar eclipse.
- He pioneered the use of computers in astronomy in Norway.
- He also published popular science books and articles, he was a common guest in radio and television programmes and provided commentary for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation during the television coverage of the Apollo 11 moon landing.
- He was promoted to professor in 1987, but retired when reaching the age limit of 70 in 1988.
- He was a professor emeritus for the rest of his life.
- He continued doing the calculations for the official Norwegian almanac until 1991, having started in 1967.
- During this entire period the almanac was edited by Eberhart Jensen.Brahde lived at Haslum.
- He died in May 2009.
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