According to Wikipedia, Trygve Braarud was a Norwegian botanist. He specialized in marine biology, and was affiliated with the University of Oslo for most of his career. Career He was born in Verdal, and had ten older siblings as well as a twin sister. He received some of his early schooling at a private teaching institution founded by his father. He finished his secondary education at Trondheim Cathedral School in 1921, and graduated from the University of Oslo with the cand.real. degree in 1927. In his early career he published the work The 'Øst' Expedition to the Denmark Strait 1929 in two volumes. The first volume, Hydrography, was published together with J. T. Ruud in 1932. The second volume, The Phytoplankton and its Conditions of Growth came in 1935 and earned Braarud the dr.philos. degree. He had taken up planktology as a research assistant of Haaken Hasberg Gran at the botanical laboratory, a position he held from 1926 to 1933. From 1934 to 1936 he was a research fellow of plant physiology; in 1935 he spent some time working with August Krogh in Denmark. Braarud then worked as an associate professor at the University of Oslo from 1936 to 1947, and then as a professor of marine biology from 1947.
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Brown water on the Norwegian coast in autumn 1966 (1970) (63)
Seasonal changes in the phytoplankton at various points off the Norwegian West Coast : (Observations at the permanent oceanographic stations, 1945-46) (1958) (47)
The phytoplankton of the Oslo Fjord, 1933-1934 (1939) (11)
Phytoplankton observations in offshore Norwegian coastal waters between 62°N and 69°N - I. Variation in time of the spring diatom maximum 1968-71 (1978) (11)
