Background
He was born in Kristiania, a son of Inge Sørensen and Helene Raknerud, and was a grandson of newspaper editor Lars Raknerud.
He was born in Kristiania, a son of Inge Sørensen and Helene Raknerud, and was a grandson of newspaper editor Lars Raknerud.
Norwegian Institute of Technology.
He was appointed professor of organic chemistry at the Norwegian Institute of Technology from 1939 to 1977. He published about one hundred scientific papers. In addition to the field of organic chemistry, he also contributed to botanics.
A sculpture of Sørensen by Johannes Block Hellum is located at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.