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Vilhelm Bjerknes
Times obituary
Professor Vilhelm Friman Koren Bjerknes, doyen of Norwegian scientists, died in Oslo on Monday night at the age of 89. Born in 1862, he was educated in Norway and Germany and was appointed Professor of Mechanics and Mathematical Physics at the University of Stockholm in 1893. He remained there until he moved to Oslo University in 1907 to fill a similar position there, having meanwhile been elected a research associate by the Carnegie Institute in Washington, a position he was to hold until 1946. After a brief period from 1913 to 1917 as Professor of Geophysics at Leipzig University, he returned to Norway to take charge of the Bergen Geophysical Institute and in 1918 founded the Bergen Weather Service. He held the Chair of Physics at Oslo University from 1926 until 1932, but his alert mind was not dimmed by age and he continued working long after his retirement.
Professor Vilhelm Friman Koren Bjerknes, doyen of Norwegian scientists, died in Oslo on Monday night at the age of 89. Born in 1862, he was educated in Norway and Germany and was appointed Professor of Mechanics and Mathematical Physics at the University of Stockholm in 1893. He remained there until he moved to Oslo University in 1907 to fill a similar position there, having meanwhile been elected a research associate by the Carnegie Institute in Washington, a position he was to hold until 1946. After a brief period from 1913 to 1917 as Professor of Geophysics at Leipzig University, he returned to Norway to take charge of the Bergen Geophysical Institute and in 1918 founded the Bergen Weather Service. He held the Chair of Physics at Oslo University from 1926 until 1932, but his alert mind was not dimmed by age and he continued working long after his retirement.
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