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Johan Otto Øgrim (1 October 1913 – 6 December 2006) was a Norwegian physicist.
Øgrim was born inCopenhagen, Denmark, as a son of Tobias Immanuel Øgrim (1886–1962), leader of theSalvation Army in Norway, and salvationist Othonie Margrethe Olsen (1879–1972). He spent his childhood years inKristiania,Bærum andHamar.[1]
In 1938, he married Marit Odlaug Eggen (1915–2008), a daughter ofAlbert Fredrik Eggen and granddaughter ofLorents Mørkved. Their sonTron Øgrim became an author and political activist. Otto Øgrim's sister marriedBrynjulf Bull.[1] Otto Øgrim was also the grandfather of rappersElling andAslak Borgersrud inGatas Parlament.
Øgrim took commercial education at Clark's College, London in 1929. He worked as a bookkeeper's assistant in London for one year before attending middle school in Hamar from 1930 to 1931. He then moved toOslo to work with advertising and study for theexamen artium, which he completed as a private candidate in 1934.[1]
During theSecond World War, Øgrim together withArvid Storsveen was central in establishing the secret intelligence organizationXU, from its start in the summer of 1940. After Storsveen had to flee toSweden in 1942 and was shot and killed by theGestapo in 1943, Øgrim continued as a central XU operative in southern Norway underØistein Strømnæs andAnne-Sofie Østvedt. He was not exposed before the end of theOccupation of Norway by Nazi Germany in May 1945.
He graduated with acand.real. degree with a physics major in 1946. He became a professor of experimental physics at theUniversity of Oslo in 1947. For more than 35 years, Øgrim worked as a lecturer at the Institute of Physics and a prolific textbook author at the University of Oslo.[1]
Together withHelmut Ormestad, he was best known for presenting the TV seriesFysikk på Roterommet onNRK. The two won theCappelen Prize in 1983,[2] for work on a widely used series of textbooks at high school level. In 2003, he was appointed honorary member of theNorwegian Physical Society, a Norwegian organization that promotes research in physics.
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