Eystein Husebye
Eystein Sverre Husebye (9 February 1937 – 10 November 2025) was a Norwegian seismologist.
He was born in Sulitjelma as a son of vicar and writer Sverre Daniel Husebye. He was also a brother of chemist Steinar Husebye. He finished his secondary education in 1955 and graduated from the University of Bergen with the cand.real. degree in 1962.[1]
Husesbye was a research fellow at the University of Bergen, Uppsala University and MIT, and took PhD degrees at the Uppsala University in 1972 and the University of Oslo in 1976.[2]
He worked as research director at NORSAR from 1968 to 1993 and adjunct professor at the University of Oslo from 1979 to 1990. He was then a professor of seismology at the University of Bergen from 1993 to his retirement.[3] He was inducted into the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in 1987.[4] International, he was among others Norway's representative in the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics from 1982 to 1988.[1]
Marrying Hildur Monsen in 1960, their son Eystein Husebye, Jr. became a doctor of medicine.[5] Husebye died in November 2025 in Bergen.[2]
References
[edit]- 1 2 Arntzen, Jon Gunnar, ed. (1994). "Husebye, Eystein Sverre". Hvem er hvem? (in Norwegian) (14th ed.). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. pp. 252–253.
- 1 2 Hilmar Bungum; Svein Mykkeltveit; Tormod Kværna. "Eystein Sverre Husebye (1937 - 2025)". IASPEI. Retrieved 28 August 2026.
- ↑ "Eystein Husebye". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Retrieved 28 August 2026.
- ↑ "Norske medlemmer". Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Archived from the original on 15 July 2007. Retrieved 2 September 2026.
- ↑ "Husebye jr, Eystein". Norges leger (in Norwegian). Vol. 3. Oslo: Norwegian Medical Association. 1996. pp. 106–107. ISBN 8290921462.
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