life. In 1967, he was decorated as Knight, First Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav. He was awarded the Fridtjof Nansen Prize for Excellent Research in 1977, and the International Meteorological Organization Prize in 1991. Fjørtoft died on 28 May 1998 in Oslo. See also History of numerical weather prediction References Further reading 1913 births 1998 deaths Norwegian meteorologists Mot Dag Academic staff of the University of Oslo Academic staff of the University of Copenhagen Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars