Ivar Samset

{{Short description|Norwegian forester}}

Ivar Samset (4 December 1918 – 29 June 2015) was a Norwegian forester.{{cite news|title=Nekrolog: Ivar Samset|url=http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/Nekrolog-Ivar-Samset-8094366.html#xtor=RSS-3|accessdate=22 August 2015|agency=aftenposten|date=14 July 2015|language=Norwegian}}

He was born in Skien. He graduated from the Norwegian College of Agriculture in 1944, and was a professor at the Norwegian College of Agriculture and research director at the Norwegian Forest Research Institute from 1956 to 1988. In 1977 he received an honorary degree from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.{{cite encyclopedia|title=Ivar Samset|encyclopedia=Norsk biografisk leksikon|first=Tore|last=Vik|editor=Helle, Knut|editor-link=Knut Helle|publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget |location=Oslo |url=http://snl.no/.nbl_biografi/Ivar_Samset/utdypning |language=Norwegian |accessdate=16 November 2012}}{{cite encyclopedia|title=Ivar Samset|encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon |editor-last=Godal | editor-first=Anne Marit | editor-link=Anne Marit Godal |publisher=Norsk nettleksikon |location=Oslo |url=http://snl.no/Ivar_Samset|language=Norwegian|accessdate=16 November 2012}} He was a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.{{cite web|url=http://www.dnva.no/c26848/artikkel/vis.html?tid=27628|title=Gruppe 5: Biologi|publisher=Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters|language=Norwegian|accessdate=16 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171017201516/http://www.dnva.no/c26848/artikkel/vis.html?tid=27628|archive-date=17 October 2017|url-status=dead}} In 2004 he published the autobiography Storm gjennom skogene.