Bjørn Helland-Hansen
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Template wrapper".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters". Bjørn Helland-Hansen (16 October 1877 – 7 September 1957) was a Norwegian pioneer in the field of modern oceanography. He studied the variation patterns of the weather in the northern Atlantic Ocean and of the atmosphere. [1]
He studied both medicine and physics at the University of Christiania (now University of Oslo). He developed the "Helland-Hansen Photometer" in 1910, which was carried on board Michael Sars. It was operated for the first time close to the Azores at a depth between 500 and 700 m.Template:Fact In 1915 he became Professor of oceanography at the Bergen Museum, and in 1917 director of the Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen.[2]
In 1933 he was awarded the Alexander Agassiz Medal. From 1946 to 1948, Helland-Hansen was President of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG). He was a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences and a member of the Member of the Academy of Sciences of the German Democratic Republic (DDR).
Helland-Hansen trained Alexander Kuchin, the Russian oceanographer who went to Antarctica with Roald Amundsen. An island in the Russian Arctic, east of the Geiberg Islands, has been named Gellanda-Gansena after Helland-Hansen.
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- 1877 births
- 1957 deaths
- Scientists from Bergen
- University of Oslo alumni
- Academic staff of the University of Bergen
- Norwegian oceanographers
- Members of the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin
- Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences
- Presidents of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics