Einar Tandberg-Hanssen
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August 6, 1921
Einar Tandberg-Hanssen | |
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 Tanberg-Hanssen in 1988 | |
| Born | Einar A. Tandberg-Hanssen August 6, 1921 Bergen, Norway |
| Died | July 22, 2011 (aged 89) |
| Alma mater | University of Oslo |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | solar physics |
| Institutions | High Altitude Observatory, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, University of Alabama |
| Thesis | An Investigation of the Temperature Conditions in Prominence with a Special Study of the Excitation of Helium (1960) |
Einar A. Tandberg-Hanssen (6 August 1921 – 22 July 2011) was a Norwegian-American astrophysicist with a specialty in solar physics.[1]
Tandberg-Hanssen was born in Bergen, Norway. He was the son of Birger Tandberg-Hanssen (1883-1951) and Mona Meier (1895-1967). He grew up in Langesund and Skien where he finished his secondary education in 1941. He took his undergraduate degree in astronomy at the University of Oslo in 1950, and after fellowships at Institut d'astrophysique de Paris, Caltech, High Altitude Observatory and the Cavendish Laboratory, he took his doctorate at the University of Oslo in 1960. His thesis was titled An Investigation of the Temperature Conditions in Prominence with a Special Study of the Excitation of Helium.[2][3]
