Just Knut Qvigstad (20 December 1902 – 6 May 2001) was a Norwegian engineer. He was born in

Tromsø Tromsø is a List of towns and cities in Norway, city in Tromsø Municipality in Troms county, Norway. The city is the administrative centre of the municipality as well as the administrative centre of Troms county. The city is located on the is ...

as a son of educator and politician Just Knud Qvigstad (1853–1957) and Margrethe Antonette Aagaard (1859–1949). In 1933 he married Gunvor Wefring (1909-1963). He enrolled as a student in 1921, and graduated in

electrical engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems that use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

from 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 ...

in 1928. He worked in

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from 1928, and as an assistant at the Norwegian Institute of Technology from 1929. He took the dr.techn. degree in 1937 with the thesis ''Zur Theorie des Arbeitsdiagrammes der einphasigen Induktionsmaschine''. He was a member of the

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. He worked as an engineer in Glommens Træsliberi from 1936, and chief engineer from 1945. He was a chief engineer in A/S Kykkelsrud, a hydroelectric power plant company, from 1955 before being technical director in the company

Hafslund Hafslund is a borough located east of the city centre in the city of Sarpsborg, Norway, Before 1992, Hafslund was a part of Skjeberg municipality. The name Hafslund derives from ''Hafr'', the Old Norse name for husband, and ''lundr'', meaning gr ...

from 1962 to 1969. He was also a member of the Norwegian Electrotechnical Committee from 1943 to 1965 and a board member of Samkjøringen from 1966 to 1969. He died in May 2001 and was buried in

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1902 births 2001 deaths Norwegian electrical engineers 20th-century Norwegian businesspeople Norwegian Institute of Technology alumni Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters People from Tromsø {{Norway-engineer-stub