Bjørn Pedersen
- Professor of Chemistry (emeritus)
- e-mail: bjornp@kjemi.uio.no
- Phone: +47 22 85 56 90
- Fax: +47 22 85 54 41
- Office address: V 110 Chemistry building
- Mail address: Box 1033 Blindern, NO-0315 Oslo, Norway
Born: Oslo 1933
Degrees: cand. real. chemistry Oslo (1958) Thesis: An investigation
of the system vanadium-sulfur (in Norwegian) dr. philos. Oslo (1964)
Thesis: PMR in hydrates.
fil .dr. h. c. Uppsala University (1989).
Positions: Scholarship holder NAVF 1955-8; research asociate physics Cornell University 1959-60; Researcher 1960-1967 and research director Central Institute for Industrial Research (SI) 1968-78; Professor II in spin spectroscopy UiO 1970-78; Professor of Chemistry UiO 1.01.1979-30.06.2003. Since then professor emeritus at work at the institute. Head of the division of the history of chemistry in the Norwegian Chemical Society 2004-.
Elected positions at the University of Oslo: chairman Department of
Chemistry 1972-3; vice dean Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences 1975
and 1980-2; vice rector 1985-88.
Member of the Royal Society of Sciences,
Uppsala.
My research field was solid state NMR, but in recent years I have turned to the study of the history of chemistry in Norway.
Highlights in Norwegian chemistry
Recent publications in English
Recent publications in Norwegian
Last modified: 02.04.06 BP