Nic Knudtzon, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Nicolay Heinrich "Nic" Knudtzon (17 March 1922 – 7 February 2013) was a Norwegian telecommunications engineer.
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About Nic Knudtzon
- Nicolay Heinrich "Nic" Knudtzon (17 March 1922 – 7 February 2013) was a Norwegian telecommunications engineer. He graduated in electronic engineering from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1947.
- He was hired at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, and remained here for several years except for studies at the MIT in 1948.
- He worked with developing radio links; the first in Norway opened in 1954 between Oslo and Bergen.In 1955 he was hired at the newly established SHAPE Technical Centre as communications director.
- While working in the Netherlands he took a doctorate at the Delft University of Technology.
- In 1967 he was hired as director of the new Televerkets Forskningsinstitutt at Kjeller, the research establishment of the telecommunications monopolist Televerket.
- He remained so for 25 years.
- Partially based on the contributions from TF research, Televerket in the 1990s transformed to the modern corporation Telenor.Knudtzon was also a council member of NTNF.
- He was a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences.
- He was a great-grandson of Ludvig Ludvigsen Daae, and as such published Daae's memoirs in 2003.He was decorated as a Knight, First Class of the Order of St.
- Olav in 1993.
- He died in February 2013.
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