Viking Olver Eriksen

Viking Olver Eriksen (14 April 1922 – 6 March 2014) was a Norwegian nuclear physicist.

He was born in Stavanger, and graduated as cand.real. in 1951. In 1952 he was hired at the Institute for Nuclear Energy at Kjeller&mdash;the institution is now named the Norwegian Institute for Energy Technology&mdash;as head of the physics department. He left this position in 1965 to become assisting director. In 1968 he was managing director for a brief time, from 1971 to 1982 he held this position on a permanent basis.

He died in Lillestrøm in March 2014 at the age of 91.