Harald Wergeland

Harald Nicolai Storm Wergeland (14 March 1912 – 25 January 1987) was a Norwegian physicist.

He was born in Norderhov as a son of forest manager Harald Nicolay Storm Wergeland (1884–1953) and Ebba Marie Weien (1889–1952).

He was briefly a teacher at Trondheim Commerce School before working as an assistant at the Norwegian Institute of Technology from 1939.

[1] Wergeland participated in the foundation of CERN and was a leading member of Pugwash in Norway.

[citation needed] He was decorated as a Knight, First Class of the Order of St. Olav in 1960 and received the Gunnerus Medal in 1970.