Carl Wilhelm Carstens (1887 – 1950) was a Norwegian geologist. He was born in

Trondhjem Trondheim ( , , ; ), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros, and Trondhjem (), is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. As of 2022, it had a population of 212,660. Trondheim is the third most populous municipality in Norway, and is t ...

. He was a lecturer at the

Norwegian Institute of Technology The Norwegian Institute of Technology ( Norwegian: ''Norges tekniske høgskole'', NTH) was a science institute in Trondheim, Norway. It was established in 1910, and existed as an independent technical university for 58 years, after which it was ...

from 1920 to 1936. In 1936 he was hired by the private company Orkla Gruber, having a considerable influence on the mining industry of Norway.

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20th-century Norwegian geologists Academic staff of the Norwegian Institute of Technology Scientists from Trondheim 1887 births 1950 deaths {{Norway-academic-bio-stub