Norwegian physicist (1912–1987)
Wergeland 1963 in Copenhagen 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 .[ 1]
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.[ 1]
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 .[ 2] [ 3] Purdue University from 1948 to 1949.[ 1] CERN and was a leading member of Pugwash in Norway.[ 2]
He served as praeses of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters from 1958 to 1965.[ 4] Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1943, the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters from 1964[ 1] Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences .[citation needed He was decorated as a Knight, First Class of the Order of St. Olav in 1960 and received the Gunnerus Medal in 1970.[ 1]
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