Tor Nørretranders
# Tor Nørretranders

Tor Nørretranders (born 20 June 1955) is a Danish author of popular science. He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. His books and lectures have primarily been focused on light popular science and its role in society, often with Nørretranders' own advice about how society should integrate new findings in popular science. He introduced the notion of exformation in his book The User Illusion.

## Biography

Tor Nørretranders' mother is Yvonne Levy (1920–) and his father was Bjarne Nørretranders (1922–1986). Tor Nørretranders graduated at "Det frie gymnasium" in 1973 and reached a cand.techn.soc-degree from Roskilde University (Roskilde) in 1982, specialized in environment planning and its scientific theoretic basis. He lives north of Copenhagen with his wife Rikke Ulk and three children.

### Other academic accomplishments

* The Technical University of Denmark from 1982 to 1983
* The Danish Royal Academy of Art 1990–1991
* Adjunct Professor of the philosophy of science at Copenhagen Business School since 2003.

## Journalism background

* Information (Danish Paper) 1975–1982
* Weekendavisen (Danish Paper) 1983–1985
* Børsens Nyhedsmagasin (Danish Paper) 1985–1986
* Danmarks Radio TV-K (Danish TV-station) 1986–1988
* Chaos 1988–1990 (company producing science journalism and television)
* Has received 'Dansk Forfatterforenings Faglitterære Pris 1985' (The Danish Society of Authors' Non-Fiction Prize 1985) and 'Publicistprisen 1988' (The Publicist Prize 1988)
