Kaare Aksnes
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Kaare Aksnes (born 25 March 1938 in Kvam in Hardanger) is a professor at the Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics at the University of Oslo.
Personal life
He was born in
Kvam, Hordaland as a brother of the chemist Gunnar Aksnes.[1] His parents were farmers. In 1959 he married teacher Liv Kristin Marøy.[2]
Career
He
meteors, comets and artificial sounds. His work is among other things used by NASA's Voyager sounds to Jupiter, and he received the NASA Group Achievement Award for his work.[citation needed
]
After several years at the
Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian in Cambridge, Massachusetts he returned from the United States to Norway in 1978, where he was employed at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment from 1978 to 1988. He was also an assisting professor at the University of Tromsø from 1980. In 1988 he was appointed as a professor at the University of Oslo. Since 1993 he is also responsible for the official Norwegian almanac.[2]
He is a member of the
HM The King's Medal of Merit in gold for his scientific achievements through a long scientific career within astronomy.[citation needed
]
References
- Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 7 April 2009.
- ^ a b c d Engvold, Oddbjørn (1999). "Kaare Aksnes". In Helle, Knut (ed.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Vol. 1. Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Archived from the original on 14 June 2012. Retrieved 7 April 2009.