{"id":16,"date":"2017-10-24T14:34:04","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T12:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/acadborealis-eng\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2017-10-24T14:45:02","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T12:45:02","slug":"memorial-lectures","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/acadborealis-eng\/with-a-heart-for-science-and-scholarship\/memorial-lectures\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Lectures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year Academia Borealis arranges two memorial lectures:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/acadborealis-eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/329\/2017\/10\/LeifHarang-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"142\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/acadborealis-eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/329\/2017\/10\/LeifHarang-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/site.uit.no\/acadborealis-eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/329\/2017\/10\/LeifHarang-768x1096.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.uit.no\/acadborealis-eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/329\/2017\/10\/LeifHarang-717x1024.jpg 717w, https:\/\/site.uit.no\/acadborealis-eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/329\/2017\/10\/LeifHarang.jpg 1553w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 142px) 100vw, 142px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Harang Lectu<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>re<\/strong> <\/em>is named for the outstanding Northern light researcher <em>Leiv Marius Harang<\/em> (1902-1970) who did pioneering work on the polar ionosphere; he was also was the first head of the Northern Light Observatory in Troms\u00f8 when it was established in 1928.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">_______________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/acadborealis-eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/329\/2017\/10\/QvigstadKontor-portrett.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"146\" height=\"159\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <em><strong>Qvigsta<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>d Lecture<\/strong> <\/em>commemorates the well-known scholar <em>Just Knud Qvigstad<\/em> (1853-1957) who\u00a0was the director of Troms\u00f8 Musum for many years and later Rector of the Teacher\u00a0College; Qvigstad is rightly remembered for his ground-breaking studies of Sami language and culture.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fsite.uit.no%2Facadborealis-eng%2Fwith-a-heart-for-science-and-scholarship%2Fmemorial-lectures%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year Academia Borealis arranges two memorial lectures: &nbsp; The Harang Lecture is named for the outstanding Northern light researcher Leiv Marius Harang (1902-1970) who did pioneering work on the polar ionosphere; he was also was the first head of the Northern Light Observatory in Troms\u00f8 when it was established in 1928. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":787,"featured_media":0,"parent":6,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/acadborealis-eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/acadborealis-eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/acadborealis-eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/acadborealis-eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/787"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/acadborealis-eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/acadborealis-eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/acadborealis-eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions\/28"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/acadborealis-eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/acadborealis-eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}