Søren Absalon Larsen was a Danish physicist who worked in the field of electroacoustics and is best known for giving his name to the Larsen effect.
Education
1890: Student
1891: Candidate Philosophy
1896 - 1897: Assistant Professor K. Prytz (Peter Kristian Prytz, 1851-1929)
1898: Copenhagen University gold medal for thesis on Electrical Conductivities of Amalgamates
1898 - 1903: Assistant at Polytechnic College Physical Laboratory
1903 - 1906: Associate Professor of electrical engineering at the Polytechnic College
1906 - 1941: Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Technical University
1951: Honorary Doctorate, Technical University of Denmark.
Career
And taught theology, then he began to study physics. He subsequently joined to assist Professor Prytz in the organization of a new exercise course in electronics for mechanical engineers. He was employed at the Polytechnic college, first as a lecturer, later as a professor of electrical engineering.
From 1937 he was chairman of the electrical engineering group under the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences.
More biographical detail in Danish from the Dansk Biografisk Leksikon, Nordisk Familjebok, and the Svenska language Wikipedia article Parents: farmer og carpenter, later maltster Hans Christian L. (1834-1920) and Ingeborg Absalonsen (1833-1892). Married 1900 with Agnes Hedevig Elisabeth Munch (born 11061874 in Haslemere, died 2091953 in Gentofte), of the merchant Peter Jacob M. (1834-1914) and Charlotte Margaret Adler (1842-1926).
1890: Student.