birth_place awards nationality birth_date article_title name occupation
bergen commander of the royal norwegian order of st. olav norwegian november 15 , 1937 eivind hiis hauge
 eivind hiis hauge physicist
eivind hiis hauge

eivind hiis hauge -lrb- born 15 november 1937 -rrb- is a norwegian physicist .
he was born in bergen , but took his secondary education at oslo cathedral school .
he then took the siv.ing .
degree , graduating from the norwegian institute of technology in 1962 and took the dr.techn .
degree in 1965 .
he spent the years 1965 to 1967 as a research fellow at rockefeller university .
he was a professor of theoretical physics at the norwegian institute of technology from 1976 .
in 2001 , having been dean of the faculty of information technology , mathematics and electrical engineering , he ran for election as rector of the norwegian university of science and technology , the successor of the institute of technology .
he chose julie feilberg as his vice rector candidate , and they edged out the other candidates kathrine skretting and ingvald strømmen .
he assumed the rector chair in 2002 .
in the summer of 2005 his period ended , and he was succeeded by torbjørn digernes .
he has been the chair of trondheim symphony orchestra and the trondheim soloists , and a board member of the nansen academy .
he is a member the norwegian academy of technological sciences .
in 2006 he was decorated as a commander of the royal norwegian order of st. olav .
