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Jun 02, 1851 Died on 17 Apr 1896 (aged 44)
Danish photographer
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About Sophus Tromholt
- Sophus Tromholt (2 June 1851 – 17 May 1896) was a Danish teacher, astrophysicist and an amateur photographer.
- He worked as a teacher at Tanks School in Bergen, Norway 1876-82.
- In 1882 he was granted a scholarship by the Danish and Norwegian states to study the northern lights (Aurora Borealis).
- During the first International Polar Year 1882/83, he established a scientific northern lights centre in Kautokeino.
- His Northern lights studies pioneered the modern Northern lights science.
- In 2013 UNESCO'S Memory of the World Register included the Sophus Tromholt Collection.
