Osmund Holm-Hansen
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Osmund Holm-Hansen (also known as Oz Holm-Hansen[1]) is a Norwegian-born American scientist, for whom Mount Holm-Hansen, in Antarctica is named. A plant physiologist by training, from 1962 Holm-Hansen was the head of polar research at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.[2][3]
Beginning in 1976, Holm-Hansen conducted extensive field research on microbial populations in McMurdo Sound, the Ross Sea, and other ocean areas south of the Antarctic Convergence.
Footnotes[edit]
- ^ "Biosketch: Oz Holm-Hansen, Ph.D." Scripps Institution of Oceanography: Sverdrup Polar Studies Program. Retrieved 22 March 2011.
- ^ Robert Engelman, "Antarctic Radiation Increase Tied to Ozone 'Hole,'" Nashua Telegraph, April 13, 1989.
- ^ "Osmund Holm-Hansen, Ph.D. - Curricula Vita". Scripps Institution of Oceanography: Sverdrup Polar Studies Program. Retrieved 22 March 2011.
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