Svein Rosseland

Svein Rosseland ( born March 31, 1894 in Kvam Hardanger region, Norway, † 19 January 1985 in Bærum ) was a Norwegian astrophysicist and pioneer in theoretical astrophysics.

Rosseland attended school in Haugesund and studied from 1917 at the University of Oslo. After only three semesters, he left the University and assistant professor was at Vilhelm Bjerknes at Geophysical Institute mountains ( Bergensskolen inside meteorological ). In 1920 he joined the Institute of Physics (now the Niels Bohr Institute ) in Copenhagen. 1924-1926 he spent as a Rockefeller Fellow at the Mount Wilson Observatory in Pasadena. In 1927 he earned his Ph.D. at the University of Oslo

From 1928 to 1964 he was a professor at the University of Oslo. In 1934, he established the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics Institutt for teoretisk Astrofysikk, which he led in the sequence. In 1938 he designed the Oslo Analyzer, the most powerful temporarily Differential Analyzer. When the Germans marched in, he fled to the United States and became a professor at Princeton University. In 1943 he went to London, where he worked on the development of radar and conducted research on underwater explosions. He was adviser to the U.S. Time Corporation, in the last year of the war he made military research at Columbia University.

In 1946 he returned to Norway. 1948 involved themselves. At the foundation of the Institute for Energy Technology Institutt for Energiteknikk Around 1955, he was the driving force behind the founding of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences and of the solar observatory in Harestua Solobservatoriet på Harestua.