Svein Rosseland

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Svein Rosseland (March 31, 1894 – January 19, 1985) was a Norwegian astrophysicist.

In 1920 he went to the Institute of Physics at Copenhagen, where he met Niels Bohr and other prominent physicists, and where he wrote two seminal papers. He spent 1924–1926 at Mount Wilson Observatory, then returned to Oslo. In 1936 he published his textbook Theoretical Astrophysics, which contained numerous original contributions.

With the German occupation of Norway in World War II he fled the country and went to the United States but returned after the end of the war.

Rosseland crater on the Moon is named after him.

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• QJRAS 27 (1986) 512