Carl Anton Bjerknes

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name = Carl Anton Bjerknes


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birth_date = birth date|1825|10|24|mf=y
birth_place = Oslo, Norway
death_date =death date and age|1903|3|20|1825|10|24|mf=y
death_place = Oslo
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field = Mathematician, Physicist
work_institution = University of Oslo
alma_mater = University of Oslo
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known_for = Hydrodynamics
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Carl Anton Bjerknes (* October 24 1825 in Kristiania; † March 20 1903 in Oslo) was a Norwegian mathematician and physicist.

His father was Abraham Isaksen Bjerknes and his mother Elen Birgitte Holmen. Bjerknes studied mining at the University of Oslo, and after that mathematics at the University of Göttingen and the University of Paris. In 1866 he held a chair for applied mathematics and in 1869 for mathematics.

Influenced by Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, Bjerknes worked for the rest of his life in the field of hydrodynamics. He tried to explain the electrodynamics of James Clerk Maxwell by hydrodynamical analogies and similarly he proposed an mechanical explanation of gravitation. Although he didn't succeeded in his attempts to explain all those things, his findings in the field of hydrodynamics were important. His son Vilhelm Bjerknes continued the work of his father.

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