Carl Anton Bjerknes (1825-1903), Norwegian mathematician and physicist
Over a fifty year time period, Bjerknes taught mathematics at the University of Oslo and at the military college.
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He tried to explain the electrodynamics of James Clerk Maxwell by hydrodynamical analogies and similarly he proposed a mechanical explanation of gravitation.
Born in Christiania, Bjerknes enjoyed an early exposure to fluid dynamics, as assistant to his father, Carl Anton Bjerknes, who had discovered by mathematical analysis the apparent actions at a distance between pulsating and oscillating bodies in a fluid, and their analogy with the electric and magnetic actions at a distance.
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