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{{Short description|Norwegian professor of anatomy}}
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'''Alf Brodal''' (25 January 1910 – 29 February 1988) was a [[Norway|Norwegian]] professor of [[anatomy]].

==Personal life==
He was born in [[Oslo|Kristiania]] as a son of the doctor of engineering Peter Brodal (1872–1935) and his wife Helene Kathrine Obenauer (1879–1934).<ref name=nbl/> He was a brother of violinist [[Jon Brodal]] (1911–1998) and psalm writer [[Anne Margarethe Brodal]] (1914–1999).<ref>{{cite news|title=Anne Margarethe Brodal|work=Aftenposten|date=27 January 2000|page=18|author=Ellingsen, Svein|author2=Haavik, Åge|language=Norwegian}}</ref>
Brodal was married to physiotherapist Inger Olivia Hannestad (1910–1986). He died in 1988 in [[Bærum]].<ref name=nbl/> Their son [[Per Alf Brodal]] also became a professor of medicine.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.apollon.uio.no/portretter/1999/lillehjernen.html|title=Per Alf Brodal: Med lillehjernen i bløt|last=Wiese|first=Ingeborg|date=1 February 1999|work=Apollon|language=Norwegian|accessdate=16 April 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110072049/http://www.apollon.uio.no/portretter/1999/lillehjernen.html|archive-date=10 November 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Career==
He [[examen artium|finished]] his secondary education in 1929 and the [[cand.med.]] degree in 1937. He took the [[dr.med.]] degree in 1940 on the thesis ''Experimentelle Untersuchungen über die olivocerebellare Lokalisation''. He was hired at the [[University of Oslo]] in 1943, and was promoted to professor in 1950. He was a specialist in [[neuroanatomy]], and was particularly interested in the [[cerebellum]], the reticular substance and the [[vestibular nuclei]]. He worked closely with [[Jan Birger Jansen]].<ref name=nbl>{{cite encyclopedia|year=1999|volume=1|title=Alf Brodal|encyclopedia=[[Norsk biografisk leksikon]]|first=Øivind|last=Larsen|editor=Helle, Knut|editor-link=Knut Helle|publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget|location=Oslo|url=http://www.snl.no/.nbl_biografi/Alf_Brodal/utdypning|language=Norwegian|accessdate=10 March 2009}}</ref>

His books include ''Nevro-anatomi i relasjon til klinisk nevrologi'' (1943), the translation ''Neurological Anatomy in Relation to Clinical Medicine'' (1st edition 1948),(2d edition 1969,(3d edition 1981) and ''Centralnervesystemet'' (1949).
In 1973, after suffering a [[stroke]] the previous year, he wrote an unusual article, ''Self-Observations and Neuro-Anatomical Considerations After a Stroke'', published in the journal ''[[Brain (journal)|Brain]]''.<ref name=nbl/> He chaired the editorial committee of the Norwegian journal ''[[Tidsskrift for Den norske Lægeforening]]'' from 1959 to 1975. He also had a considerable catalogue of publications in [[popular science]].<ref name=snl>{{cite encyclopedia|year=|title=Alf Brodal|encyclopedia=[[Store norske leksikon]]|editor=|publisher=|location=|url=http://www.snl.no/Alf_Brodal|language=Norwegian|accessdate=5 March 2009}}</ref>

Brodal served as the [[Dean (academia)|dean]] of the Faculty of Medicine from 1964 to 1966, and as vice rector from 1967 to 1969 under [[List of rectors of the University of Oslo|rector]] [[Hans Vogt (linguist)|Hans Vogt]]. From 1966 to 1969 he was a member of ''Hovedkomiteen for norsk forskning''. He retired as a professor in 1977.<ref name=nbl/>

Brodal was a member of the [[Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters]] from 1944 to his death. He received [[honorary degree]]s at [[Uppsala University]] (1966), [[University of Paris]] (1975) and the [[University of Oxford]] (1983). He was decorated as a Knight of the [[Order of St. Olav]] in 1969, and was promoted to Commander of the same order in 1980.<ref name=nbl/>

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