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205:(20 December 1886 – 14 April 1987) was a Norwegian physicist and civil servant. He worked in academia until 1938, when he became an official in the Norwegian Ministry of Church and Education. During the German occupation of Norway, he fled the country and worked with its government in exile. After the war, he returned to the education ministry until his retirement.
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in April 1940, Devik continued at the request of Norway's exiled government, but he was fired in 1941. He was offered a professorship, but declined and spent the next year as a freelance lecturer. In 1942 he was fired from that job too, and in 1943 he fled to the United
Kingdom where he worked for
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the government-in-exile for the rest of the war. After the war he returned to the
Ministry of Church and Education, retiring in 1956. The years saw the beginning of the huge growth in higher education in Norway. Among others, the
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from 1913 to 1914, and was hired at the Royal
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observatory. The two successfully suggested the establishment of a geophysical institute in
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degree in 1932. In the same year he started working for the Chr. Michelsen
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Thermische und dynamische
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degree in 1911. Starting in 1908 he worked as an assistant to
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Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences
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551:(in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget
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