Njål Hole, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Norwegian chemical engineer and nuclear physicist
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Place of Birth: Hjørundfjord, Møre og Romsdal, Norway
About Njål Hole
- Njål Hole MBE (15 November 1914 – 6 February 1988) was a Norwegian chemical engineer and nuclear physicist. He was born in Hjørundfjord.
- He graduated from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1938.
- During the German occupation of Norway he participated in resistance activities, and had to flee to Sweden.
- In Stockholm he was appointed at the same laboratory as exiled Austrian nuclear physicist Lise Meitner, who had been part of the team that discovered nuclear fission.
- Hole had contacts with the British Secret Intelligence Service, reporting to Leif Tronstad in London.
- He was decorated Member of the Order of the British Empire after the war.
- He was appointed professor in physics at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondheim from 1954.
- His research was primarily in the field of nuclear physics.
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