Education
Einbu attended Hamar offentlige lærerskole, and worked as a teacher in Øyer, Vågå and Sel before returning to his home community Dombåson
Einbu attended Hamar offentlige lærerskole, and worked as a teacher in Øyer, Vågå and Sel before returning to his home community Dombåson
The nova was named Nova Geminorum 2. Also in 1912 he introduced a new class of variable stars, the Recreation Vehicle Tauri variable stars. He spelled his family name Enebo during large parts of his scientific career, but in 1926 he changed it to Einbu according to the local pronunciation.
He took an interest in astronomy at an early age, but could not devote himself fully to astronomy until he was appointed statsstipendiat (Government scholar) in 1908.
He established and ran a magnetic monitoring station at Dombås from 1916. During his lifetime he was a people"s educator and wrote frequently in newspapers and popular journals.
His childhood house Einbustugu has been moved from Lesjaskog to Dombås, and is today a museum in his memory.
Sigurd Einbu was awarded Lindemannsprisen granted at the meeting of the Astronomische Gesellschaft in Jena in 1906 Atenogenes-Silva medaljen from Sociedad Astronomica de Mexico in 1912 Fridtjof Nansens belønning for fremragende forskning from Nansenfondet awarded by Videnskapsakademiet i Kristiania in 1926. Gunnerus Medal from Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters in Trondheim in 1934. Honorary member of Norwegian Astronomical Society in Oslo on May 5, 1938.
He was a founding member of Norsk Novaselskap.
