Finn Ravndal
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Finn Ravndal | |
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| Born | 24 August 1942 |
| Citizenship | Norwegian |
| Alma mater | Caltech |
| Awards | Fridtjof Nansen Prize |
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| Fields | Theoretical Physics |
| Institutions | University of Oslo |
Finn Ravndal (born 1942) is a Norwegian physicist. Ravndal grew up in Molde Municipality in Norway. In 1961 he enrolled at the Norwegian Institute of Technology to study physics (Teknisk Fysikk). In 1966 he completed the degree of sivilingeniør (equivalent to Bachelor of Science) with a dissertation in the area of theoretical physics under the supervision of Harald Wergeland.
During the summer of 1965, he interned at CERN where he worked with an experimental particle physics group to study bubble chamber images for the detection of new elementary particles.
Ravndal received in 1968 a Norwegian doctorate (dr.ing.) in theoretical physics, while completing his national service at Forsvarets forskningsinstitutt, working with the effects of electromagnetic pulses (EMP) from atomic explosions. From 1968, he obtained a position to study at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). There, in collaboration with Richard Feynman, he developed a relativistic model of quarks which led to the second doctoral degree of Ph.D. in 1971.[1]
