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Norwegian oceanographer (–)

Harald Ulrik Sverdrup (15 November – 21 August ) was a Norwegian oceanographer and meteorologist. He served as director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Norwegian Polar Institute.^[1][2]

Background

He was born at Sogndal in Sogn og Fjordane, Norway.

He was the son of Lutheran theologian Edvard Sverdrup (–) and Maria Vollan (–). His sister Mimi Sverdrup Lunden (–) was an educator and author. His brother Leif Sverdrup (–) was a General with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

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His brother Einar Sverdrup (–) was CEO of Store Norske Spitsbergen Kulkompani.^[3]

Sverdrup was a student at Bergen Cathedral School in before graduating in at Kongsgård School in Stavanger. He graduated cand. real. in from University of Oslo. He studied under Vilhelm Bjerknes and earned his Dr. Philos. at the University of Leipzig in ^[4]

Career

He was the scientific director of the Nor Harald Ulrik Sverdrup Encyclopedia Arctica 15: Biographies JAHI