Osmund Holm-Hansen (also known as Oz Holm-Hansen) was a Norwegian-born American scientist, for whom Mount Holm-Hansen, in Antarctica is named. A plant physiologist by training, from 1962 Holm-Hansen was the head of polar research at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.Robert Engelman, "Antarctic Radiation Increase Tied to Ozone 'Hole,'" Nashua Telegraph, April 13, 1989.
Beginning in 1976, Holm-Hansen conducted extensive field research on microbial populations in McMurdo Sound, the Ross Sea, and other ocean areas south of the Antarctic Convergence.
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