He was research leader at SI (which later merged with SINTEF), and was professor of chemistry at the University of Oslo for 24 years.
Born in Vestre Aker, Pedersen graduated as dr.philos.
His research included contributions to solid-state chemistry, and the fields of electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
[1] Pedersen received honorable doctorship at Uppsala University in 1989, and became honorary member of the Norwegian Chemical Society in 2014.
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