Nils Andreas Sørensen

Nils Andreas Sørensen (8 December 1909 – 8 June 1987) was a Norwegian chemist. He was born in Kristiania, a son of Inge Sørensen and Helene Raknerud, and was a grandson of newspaper editor Lars Raknerud. 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. He was decorated Knight, First Class of the Order of St. Olav in 1965. A sculpture of Sørensen by Johannes Block Hellum is located at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.