Johan Otto Øgrim (1 October 1913 - 6 December 2006) was a Norwegian physicist and author.[1]
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Johan Otto Øgrim was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, but grew up in Norway. He graduated from the Trondheim Cathedral School in 1934. He graduated with a cand.real. degree with a physics major in 1946. He became a professor of experimental physics at the University of Oslo in 1947. For more than 35 years, Øgrim worked as a lecturer at the Institute of Physics and a prolific textbook author at the Oslo University.[2]
Together with Helmut Ormestad, he was best known for presenting the TV series Fysikk på Roterommet on NRK. 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 Norsk Fysisk Selskap, a Norwegian organization which promotes research in physics.
During the Second World War, Øgrim together with Arvid Storsveen 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 Gestapo 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 Occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany in May 1945.
Otto Øgrim was the son of Tobias Immanuel Øgrim (1886-1962), leader of the Salvation Army in Norway. In 1938, he married Odlaug Marit Eggen (1915-2008). Øgrim was the father of author Tron Øgrim. He was the grandfather of rappers Elling and Aslak Borgersrud in Gatas Parlament.
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| Preceded by Bjørg Vik, Jahn Otto Johansen |
Recipient of the Cappelen Prize 1983 (shared with Richard Herrmann, Helmut Ormestad, Kåre Lunde) |
Succeeded by Rune Belsvik, Lars Saabye Christensen, Ove Røsbak, Karin Sveen |