title: Per Osland
text: # Per Osland
  
  Per Osland is a Norwegian physicist specializing in theoretical particle physics. He is a professor emeritus at the University of Bergen.
  
  ## Education and career
  
  Osland earned a degree in physics from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1968, and completed a Ph.D. at the University of Trondheim in 1975. He became a professor at the University of Bergen in 1987.
  
  ## Book
  
  He is the coauthor with Roy J. Glauber of the book Asymptotic Diffraction Theory and Nuclear Scattering (Cambridge University Press, 2019).
  
  ## Recognition
  
  Osland was elected to the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters in 1989. He was president of the Norwegian Physical Society from 2010 to 2013.
  
  