Yara International ordered the Yara Birkeland, which will be the world's first autonomous ship and is named after Birkeland
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Kristian Birkeland
Kristian Olaf Bernhard Birkeland was a Norwegian space physicist, inventor, 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. In order to fund his research on the aurorae, he invented the electromagnetic cannon and the Birkeland–Eyde process of fixing nitrogen…
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science · Norwegian scientist (1867–1917) · physicist · professor · astronomer · university teacher · also Kristian Birkeland, Birkeland
Born 13 December 1867 · Died 15 June 1917 · Q461624
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And carrying a magnetometer above the ionosphere
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1917· 1 entry
Died 1917-06-15.
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1916· 1 entry
Birkeland was probably the first person to successfully predict that the solar wind behaves as do all charged particles in an electric field: "From a physical point of view it is most probable that solar rays are neither
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1913· 1 entry
Birkeland may have been the first to predict that plasma was ubiquitous in space
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It was the alleged medium Etta Wriedt from Detroit, famous for her "spirit trumpet", who was exposed as a fraud
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Awarded Fridtjof Nansen Award of Excellence, Mathematics-Natural sciences class (1908).
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In his book The Norwegian Aurora Polaris Expedition 1902–1903 that polar electric currents, today referred to as auroral electrojets, were connected to a system of currents that flowed along geomagnetic field lines into
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1867· 1 entry
Born 1867-12-13.
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