Norwegian oceanographer (1877–1957)
Bjørn Helland-Hansen (16 October 1877 – 7 September 1957) was a Norwegian pioneer in the field of modern oceanography . He studied the variation patterns of the weather in the northern Atlantic Ocean and of the atmosphere. [ 1]
He studied both medicine and physics at the University of Christiania (now University of Oslo).
He developed the "Helland-Hansen Photometer " in 1910, which was carried on board Michael Sars Azores at a depth between 500 and m. In 1915 he became Professor of oceanography at the Bergen Museum , and in 1917 director of the Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen .[ 2]
In 1933 he was awarded the Alexander Agassiz Medal . From 1946 to 1948, Helland-Hansen was President of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG). He was a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences and a member of the Member of the Academy of Sciences of the German Democratic Republic (DDR).
Helland-Hansen trained Alexander Kuchin , the Russian oceanographer who went to Antarctica with Roald Amundsen . An island in the Russian Arctic , east of the Geiberg Islands , has been named Gellanda-Gansena after Helland-Hansen.
Bjørn Helland-Hansen (ca 1917)
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