He graduated from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1926, and worked for Norsk Hydro from 1929.
He was central in the planning and running of the world"s first industrial heavy water plant at Norsk Hydro Rjukan. During World World War II he was called to London, and contributed to the planning phase of Operation Freshman and Operation Gunnerside, the heavy water sabotage at Vemork. From 1951 he was appointed professor of electrochemistry at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondheim.
