Øgrim in 1995 Johan Otto Øgrim (1 October 1913 – 6 December 2006) was a Norwegian physicist.

Personal life

Øgrim was born in

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, Denmark, as a son of Tobias Immanuel Øgrim (1886-1962), leader of the Salvation Army in Norway, and salvationist Othonie Margrethe Olsen (1879–1972). He spent his childhood years in

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and

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. In 1938 he married Marit Odlaug Eggen (1915-2008), a daughter of

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and granddaughter of Lorents Mørkved. Their son

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became an author and political activist. Otto Øgrim's sister married

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. Otto Øgrim was also the grandfather of rappers

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and

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in Gatas Parlament.

Education and Second World War

Øgrim took commercial education at Clark's College, London in 1929. He worked as a bookkeeper's assistant in London for one year before attending middle school in Hamar from 1930 to 1931. He then moved to

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to work with advertising and study for the

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, which he completed as a private candidate in 1934. During the

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, Øgrim together with

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was central in establishing the secret intelligence organization XU, from its start in the summer of 1940. After Storsveen had to flee to Sweden in 1942 and was shot and killed by the

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in 1943, Øgrim continued as a central XU operative in southern Norway under Øistein Strømnæs and Anne-Sofie Østvedt. He was not exposed before the end of the

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in May 1945.

Physicist

He graduated with a

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degree with a physics major in 1946. He became a professor of experimental physics at the

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in 1947. For more than 35 years, Øgrim worked as a lecturer at the Institute of Physics and a prolific textbook author at the University of Oslo. Together with Helmut Ormestad, he was best known for presenting the TV series ''Fysikk på Roterommet'' on

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. The two won the Cappelen Prize in 1983, for work on a widely used series of textbooks at high school level. In 2003, he was appointed honorary member of the Norwegian Physical Society, a Norwegian organization which promotes research in physics. ;Selected works * ''Termofysikk'', (1971) * ''Mekanisk fysikk'', 2 volumes, (1973, 1976)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ogrim, Otto 1913 births 2006 deaths People from Hamar Norwegian expatriates in England Norwegian resistance members XU Norwegian physicists Academic staff of the University of Oslo Norwegian television presenters NRK people