Per Osland

Per Osland is a Norwegian physicist specializing in theoretical particle physics. He is a professor emeritus at the University of Bergen.

Education and career

Osland earned a degree in physics from the Norwegian [Institute of Technology] in 1968, and completed a Ph.D. at the University of Trondheim in 1975. He became a professor at the University of Bergen in 1987.

He is the coauthor with Roy J. Glauber of the book Asymptotic Diffraction Theory and Nuclear Scattering.

Osland was elected to the Royal [Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters] in 1989. He was president of the Norwegian Physical Society from 2010 to 2013.