Knut S. Heier

Knut Sigurdsn Heier was a Norwegian geochemist. He was a professor at the University of Oslo and the Norwegian Institute of Technology between 1968 and 1989, and was also director of the Norwegian Geological Survey. Heier also spent parts of his research abroad, and was a member of the Apollo Project.

He was born in Brum as the son of an engineer. He graduated from the University of Oslo with the cand.real. degree in 1954, with a paper on tungsten. He subsequently turned down a job offer from the private sector to work on a doctoral thesis. He started with a year of field work at B i Vesterlen, from 1955, and then went to Oxford to conduct laboratory work. He finally took the dr.philos. degree in 1960. He then did postdoctoral research for two years at Rice University. He was offered a senior fellowship at the Australian National University, but instead returned to Norway.

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