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Kaare Aksnes (born 25 March 1938 inKvam inHardanger) is aprofessor at the Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics at theUniversity of Oslo.
He was born inKvam, Hordaland as a brother of the chemistGunnar Aksnes.[1] His parents were farmers. In 1959 he married teacher Liv Kristin Marøy.[2]
Hefinished his secondary education in 1956, and graduated with thecand.real. degree in 1963, having studied in bothBergen andOslo. From 1964 to 1965 he was a research assistant atHarestua. He then worked in the United States for several years, and took thePh.D. atYale University in 1969.[2] His doctor's thesis is today a standard work within estimating the course ofplanets,moons,meteors,comets and artificial sounds. His work is among other things used byNASA'sVoyager sounds toJupiter, and he received theNASA Group Achievement Award for his work.[citation needed]
After several years at theCenter for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian inCambridge, Massachusetts he returned from the United States to Norway in 1978, where he was employed at theNorwegian Defence Research Establishment from 1978 to 1988. He was also an assisting professor at theUniversity of Tromsø from 1980. In 1988 he was appointed as a professor at the University of Oslo. Since 1993 he is also responsible for the official Norwegianalmanac.[2]
He is a member of theNorwegian Academy of Science and Letters since 1991. Since 1990 he presides over theInternational Astronomical Union Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature, which maintains theastronomical naming conventions andplanetary nomenclature for planetary bodies. Already in 1978, the asteroid2067 Aksnes was named after Aksnes.[2] On 5 December 2006 he received theHM The King's Medal of Merit in gold for his scientific achievements through a long scientific career within astronomy.[citation needed]
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