Rolf Nordhagen (2 August 1927 – 1 July 2013)
was a Norwegian physicist and computer scientist.Rolf
Nordhagen was born in Bergen, Norway.
He was the son of the noted botanist, Rolf
Nordhagen (1894– 1979) and the brother of
art historian Per Jonas Nordhagen.
He took his Ph.D. in Liverpool in 1958, and
was a docent in nuclear physics at the University
of Oslo from 1970 to 1974.
He changed to being the university's director
of "EDB" (information technology) from 1974
to 1986 before being hired as a professor
of informatics in 1986.Nordhagen was involved
in the development and reconstruction of both
the Norwegian academic network UNINETT as
well as the Nordic university network NORDUnet.
Rolf Nordhagen was posthumously honored with
admission into the Internet Hall of Fame in
2014
