Svein Rosseland

Svein Rosseland

Svein Rosseland (March 31 1894 – January 19 1985) was a Norwegian astrophysicist.

In 1920 he went to the Institute of Physics at Copenhagen, where he met Niels Bohr and other prominent physicists, and where he wrote two seminal papers. He spent 1924–1926 at Mount Wilson Observatory, then returned to Oslo. In 1936 he published his textbook "Theoretical Astrophysics", which contained numerous original contributions. Rosseland was instrumental in the effort behind the building of the Oslo Analyzer, which for some time was the world's most powerful differential analyzer.

With the German occupation of Norway in World War II he fled the country and went to the United States but returned after the end of the war.

Rosseland crater on the Moon is named after him.

Obituary

* [http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/QJRAS/0027//0000512.000.html QJRAS 27 (1986) 512]


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