Category:Vilhelm Bjerknes

Vilhelm Bjerknes
	Norwegian physicist and meteorologist
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Date of birth	14 March 1862; Christiania
Date of death	9 April 1951; Oslo
Place of burial	Vår Frelsers gravlund (Oslo, 10578, 8 June 1951);
Country of citizenship	Norway;
Educated at	University of Oslo;
Doctoral advisor	Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (first doctoral advisor, 1892); Carl Anton Bjerknes (second doctoral advisor); Henri Poincaré (third doctoral advisor);
Doctoral student	Halvor Solberg;
Occupation	physicist; meteorologist; university teacher;
Employer	Leipzig University; Stockholm University; Carnegie Institution for Science; University of Oslo; Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen;
Member of	Royal Society; Saxon Academy of Sciences (24 May 1913, 30 September 1917, ordinary member); Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences; Pontifical Academy of Sciences (1936); Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters; Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences (1928); American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg; Saxon Academy of Sciences (30 September 1917, foreign member); Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (1893); Washington Academy of Sciences (1906);
Field of work	physics; meteorology;
Father	Carl Anton Bjerknes;
Sibling	Ernst Wilhelm Bjerknes (brother);
Child	Jacob Bjerknes; Wilhelm Bjerknes; Kristian Bjerknes;
Work location	Leipzig;
Award received	Fridtjof Nansen Award of Excellence, Mathematics-Natural sciences class (1908); Gunnerus Medal (1938); Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Olav‎; Buys Ballot Medal (1933); Alexander Agassiz Medal (1926); Vega Medal (1939); Fellow of the Royal Society (1933); Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1930);
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