John O. Norrman | |
Birth Date: | 1929 7, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Stockholm |
Citizenship: | Sweden |
Nationality: | Swedish |
Field: | Coastal geomorphology |
Work Institutions: | Uppsala University |
Alma Mater: | Uppsala University |
Doctoral Advisor: | Filip Hjulström |
Known For: | Process geomorphology |
John Olof Norrman (29 July 1929 - 14 December 2013) was a Swedish geographer and geomorphologist known for his contributions to the coastal dynamics. Together with the other Ph.D. students of Filip Hjulström; Anders Rapp, Valter Axelsson and Åke Sundborg, Norrman was part of what came to be known as the Uppsala School of Physical Geography.[1] Norrman became in 1971 professor of physical geography at Uppsala and in 1987 he was elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.