 He was a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters from 1928, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1932 and the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences from 1956.He was an honorary member of the society "Norsk Geofysisk Forening", and published a small 50th anniversary history of the society in 1967 together with Peter Martin Thrane.He was appointed to the First Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav, as a Commander of the Order of the Dannebrog and as a Commander of the Order of the Polar Star.