Kristian Birkeland
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Job / Known for: Physicist and inventor
Left traces: Birkeland current, Birkeland-Eyde process
Born
Date: 1867-12-13
Location: NO Christiania
Died
Date: 1917-06-15 (aged 50)
Resting place: JP Tokyo
Death Cause: Barbital overdose
Family
Spouse: Ida Charlotte Hammer
Children:
Parent(s): Reinart Birkeland and Ingeborg Ege
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Kristian Birkeland was a Norwegian scientist and professor of physics at the Royal Fredriks University in Oslo. He is best remembered for his theories of atmospheric electric currents that elucidated the nature of the aurora borealis. He also invented the electromagnetic cannon and the Birkeland-Eyde process of fixing nitrogen from the air, which laid the foundation for the Norwegian fertilizer industry. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize seven times, but never won. He died at the age of 49 in Tokyo, Japan, from an overdose of barbital, a sleeping aid. He was a pioneer in the fields of plasma physics, space physics, and geomagnetism.
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