Kristian Olaf Bernhard Birkeland (born 13 December 1867 – 15 June 1917) was a Norwegian scientist, professor of physics at the Royal Fredriks University... 19 KB (2,272 words) - 16:25, 5 March 2024 |
Terrella (section Kristian Birkeland's terrella) developed 300 years later by the Norwegian scientist and explorer Kristian Birkeland, while investigating the aurora. Terrellas have been used until the... 6 KB (593 words) - 18:07, 3 March 2024 |
Bjarte Birkeland, a Norwegian literary researcher Eva Birkeland, a Norwegian civil servant Halvor Birkeland, a Norwegian sailor Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian... 1 KB (181 words) - 00:08, 13 June 2020 |
2017. Yara Birkeland is named after its owners Yara International and its founder, Norwegian scientist Kristian Birkeland. Yara Birkeland sails between... 9 KB (620 words) - 17:06, 22 January 2024 |
shows a portrait of Kristian Birkeland against a stylized pattern of the aurora borealis and a very large snowflake. Birkeland's terrella experiment,... 21 KB (1,425 words) - 13:55, 2 May 2023 |
transient, third radiation belt, which persisted for four weeks. Kristian Birkeland, Carl Størmer, Nicholas Christofilos, and Enrico Medi had investigated... 38 KB (4,488 words) - 17:18, 19 February 2024 |
Julius Plücker, Eugen Goldstein, Heinrich Hertz, Philipp Lenard, Kristian Birkeland and others to discover the properties of cathode rays, culminating... 33 KB (4,110 words) - 03:00, 30 January 2024 |
ground data and serves as a general measure of auroral activity. Kristian Birkeland deduced that the currents flowed in the east–west directions along... 104 KB (12,305 words) - 14:55, 27 March 2024 |
gyrofrequencies much lower than the ion-neutral collision frequency. Kristian Birkeland was the first to suggest that polar electric currents (or auroral... 4 KB (457 words) - 19:27, 8 December 2023 |
1991 novel by Howard Norman The Northern Lights, a 2002 biography of Kristian Birkeland by Lucy Jago Northern lights chord, an 11-note chord Northern Lights... 6 KB (758 words) - 22:30, 10 March 2024 |
professor Kristian Birkeland (1867–1917). In 1909, he married Agnes Hoff (1883–1980). Their son Øivind (1910–2004) was a civil engineer. Birkeland, Bent.... 3 KB (242 words) - 17:15, 17 January 2024 |
electrons is emitted from the Sun. He may have been unaware that Kristian Birkeland had speculated three years earlier that the solar wind might be a... 34 KB (3,683 words) - 14:17, 4 February 2024 |
Kåfjord, is a restored Northern Lights Observatory, established by Kristian Birkeland in 1899 and operational until 1926, when it was transferred to Tromsø... 5 KB (368 words) - 11:05, 8 January 2024 |
Arntzen. In 1893 he married Kristine Marie Birkeland, a daughter of Supreme Court Justice Laurits Birkeland. Their son Arne Meidell became a known industrial... 3 KB (294 words) - 07:13, 26 December 2023 |
Earth's magnetic field. In the early twentieth century, these ideas led Kristian Birkeland to build a terrella, or laboratory device which simulates the Earth's... 6 KB (770 words) - 12:46, 24 January 2024 |
Kyūkichi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 10th Yokozuna (b. 1822) 1917 – Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian physicist and academic (b. 1867) 1934 – Alfred Bruneau... 48 KB (4,828 words) - 04:54, 1 February 2024 |