Vilhelm Bjerknes Norwegian physicist
Vilhelm Bjerknes is a 89 years old Norwegian physicist from Christiania. Vilhelm Bjerknes was born on March 14, 1862 (died on April 09, 1951, he was 89 years old) in Christiania.
About
No, he died on 04/09/1951, 73 years ago. He was 89 years old when he died. He died in Oslo and buried in Vår Frelsers gravlund .
Family
His father Carl Anton Bjerknes and Carl Anton Bjerknes was 36 years old when Vilhelm born. His father was a Norwegian mathematician and physicist.
Parents
Mother: (?)
Father: Carl Anton Bjerknes
Children
He had three children, Jacob (77, Norwegian-American meteorologist) , Kristian (80) and Wilhelm (39) . When his first child, Jacob Bjerknes, was born, Vilhelm Bjerknes was 35 years old.
Brother
Vilhelm Bjerknes had 1 sibling. Ernst (3 years younger)
Awards (11)
Awarded Gunnerus Medal in 1938 , awarded Vega Medal in 1939 , awarded Symons Gold Medal in 1932 , awarded Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1930 , awarded Buys Ballot Medal in 1933 ,
Education
He graduated from University Of Oslo
What was Vilhelm's zodiac sign?Vilhelm Bjerknes zodiac sign was pisces.
Other facts about Vilhelm Bjerknes
| Award | Royal Society |
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| Place of death | Oslo |
| KnownFor | Weather forecasting |
| Employer | University Of Oslo , start time: 1926-01-01T00:00:00Z , end time: 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z |
| Member of | Norwegian Academy Of Science And Letters , start time: 1893-01-01T00:00:00Z |
| Doctoral advisor | Heinrich Rudolf Hertz , point in time: 1892-01-01T00:00:00Z , object has role: first doctoral advisor |
| Doctoral thesis | Q58034319 , doctoral advisor: Heinrich Rudolf Hertz , doctoral advisor: Henri Poincaré , doctoral advisor: Carl Anton Bjerknes , publication date: 1892-01-01T00:00:00Z , URL: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/468227572 , dissertation submitted to: University of Oslo |
| Place of burial | Vår Frelsers Gravlund , located in the administrative territorial entity: Oslo , start time: 1951-06-08T00:00:00Z , coordinate location: Point(10.745069444 59.920994444) , burial plot reference: 10578 |
| Doctoral student | Halvor Solberg |
| Languages spoken, written or signed | Norwegian |
| MacTutor id (biographies) | Bjerknes_Vilhelm |
| Country of citizenship | Norway |
| Place of birth | Christiania |
| Notable work | Bergen School Of Meteorology |
| Given name | Vilhelm |
| Field of work | Physics |
| Family name | Bjerknes. Show people with the surname Bjerknes |
| Date of death | 1951-04-09T00:00:00Z |
| Libris-URI | Zw9cc3qh2q2s5jv |
| Work location | Leipzig |
| Signature | 
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| CiNii author ID (books) | DA09176957 |
