degree in 1949, and was hired as a lecturer at the University of Oslo in 1954.
Already in 1955 he became professor of theoretical chemistry at the Norwegian Institute of Technology.
He was also a visiting scholar, both in the United States and at the University of Moscow.
[1] Otto Bastiansen was a member of the first anti-nuclear organization in Norway, together with John Engh, Johan Bernitz Hygen and Odd Hølaas, among others.
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