Kristian Birkeland Scientist

Kristian Olaf Bernhard Birkeland (13 December 1867 – 15 June 1917) was a Norwegian scientist. He is best remembered as the person who first elucidated the nature of the Aurora borealis. In order to fund his research on the aurorae, he invented the electromagnetic cannon and the Birkeland-Eyde process of fixing nitrogen from the air. Birkeland was nominated for the Nobel Prize seven times.

Personal facts

Kristian Birkeland
Birth dateDecember 13, 1867
Birth place
Oslo , Union between Sweden and Norway
Date of deathJune 15, 1917
Place of death
Tokyo
Residence
Norway
Known for
Birkeland current
Aurora
Coilgun
Birkeland–Eyde process

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Scientist

Field of study
Physics

Topical connections

Carl Anton BjerknesScientist
Sam EydeScientist
Gustav GaudernackScientist
Bjørn WiikScientist

Kristian Birkeland on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-abs_connect?db_key=AST&sim_query=YES&aut_xct=NO&aut_logic=OR&obj_logic=OR&author=&object=&start_mon=&start_year=&end_mon=&end_year=&ttl_logic=OR&title=birkeland&txt_logic=OR&text=&nr_to_return=100&start_nr=1&jou_pick=ALL&ref_stems=&data_and=ALL&group_and=ALL&start_entry_day=&start_entry_mon=&start_entry_year=&end_entry_day=&end_entry_mon=&end_entry_year=&min_score=&sort=SCORE&data_type=SHORT&aut_syn=YES&ttl_syn=YES&txt_syn=YES&aut_wt=1.0&obj_wt=1.0&ttl_wt=0.3&txt_wt=3.0
  2. http://www.catastrophism.com/texts/birkeland
  3. http://www.oldtokyo.com/tsukiji-seiyoken-hotel.php
  4. http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-10100-72-39144987-0,00.html
  5. https://archive.org/download/norwegianaurorap01chririch/norwegianaurorap01chririch.pdf