Eberhart Jensen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Norwegian astrophysicist
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Place of Birth: Røyken, Buskerud, Norway
About Eberhart Jensen
- Eberhart Jensen (22 July 1922 – 16 January 2003) was a Norwegian astrophysicist. He was born in Røyken as a son of farmer Edvard Jensen (1850–1930) and Berthe Marie Kristiansen (1883–1961).
- He finished his secondary education in 1942 and graduated from the University of Oslo with the cand.real.
- degree in 1949.
- During the occupation of Norway, after the 1943 University of Oslo fire, he was arrested together with a thousand students and sent to Stavern.
- In December he was shipped on to Sennheim, later Buchenwald.
- He survived until the camp was liberated.
- In 1948 he married Liv Linnestad.He took his Ph.D.
- at the University of Chicago in 1953, and was hired as lecturer at the University of Oslo in 1959 and docent in 1961.
- His fields were mainly solar physics and plasma physics.
- From 1965 to 1992 he served as professor, and he also edited the official Norwegian almanac from 1966 to 1993.
- He was admitted into the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in 1965.He resided in Østerås.
- He died in January 2003, aged 80.
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