Odd Dahl

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Odd Dahl
Odd Dahl with his first wife Anna
Born(1898-11-03)3 November 1898
Drammen, Norway
Died2 June 1994(1994-06-02) (aged 95)
NationalityNorwegian
Occupation(s)Engineer, explorer
Spouses
Anna Mathiesen
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(m. 1927; died 1959)​
Elisa Anthonisen
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(m. 1976)​
HonoursOrder of St. Olav

Odd Dahl (3 November 1898 – 2 June 1994) was a Norwegian engineer and explorer.[1] He is particularly remembered for his contributions to research in nuclear physics.

Biography

He was born at

Carnegie Institution of Washington. Despite his very limited formal education, he recommended Dahl seek employment there after the expedition's end in 1925.[2][3]

Physics

After a year at the Carnegie Institution, he became involved in developing devices for high voltages for use in nuclear physics, an area where the United States at that time was lagging behind Europe. In 1926, together with Merle Tuve and Lawrence Hafstad, he constructed a Van de Graaf generator for the Carnegie Institution for Science. Ten years later he did the same for Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) in Bergen. In the early stages of CERN, Dahl was invited to participate and finally in 1952 to lead the Proton Synchrotron Group's work, to which his contribution had a definitive role.[4][5]

Personal life

Dahl (right) with Oskar Omdal and Odd Arnesen

Dahl was married twice. In 1927, he married Anna Augusta Selmer Mathiesen (1904-1959), daughter of Dr. Johan Berger Mathiesen (1872-1923) and Augusta Selmer (1878-1923). Per Dahl, who became a researcher in accelerator physics, was the son of Dahl and his wife Anna.[6]

In 1976, he married Elisa Margrethe Munck f. Anthonisen (b. 1903), daughter of consul Fredrik J.E. Anthonisen (1872-1963) and Marie Boe Christensen (1874-1936).[5]

References

  1. doi:10.1063/1.2807996. Archived from the original
    on 14 October 2013. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
  2. Store norske leksikon
    (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 21 June 2013.
  3. ^ Susan Barr. "H U Sverdrup. Oseanograf, Meteorolog". Norsk biografisk leksikon. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
  4. ^ Johnsen, Kiehl (September 1994). "People and things: Odd Dahl 1989-1994". CERN Courier. 34 (7): 39.
  5. ^ a b Holtebekk, Trygve. "Odd Dahl". In Helle, Knut (ed.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 21 June 2013.
  6. ^ Dahl, Eleanor; Wanderer, Peter; Taylor, Tom (February 2012). "Faces and places: Per Dahl 1932-2011". CERN Courier. 52 (1): 42–43.
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