Personal Life
In 1922 Theodorsen married Johanne Magdelene Hoem. Her family was a well known respected family in Trondheim. They were married in the famous Nidaros Cathedral, the largest existing medieval church in Scandinavia. The wedding party was an all-night celebration at the Britannia Hotel with one hundred guests. Their daughter Muriel Gerd-Preutz and sons Theodore Elliott and John Willman were all born in the United States.
In 1976, Dr. Theodorsen was awarded an honorary doctorate degree from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, also held a colloquium in his honor at Trondheim. After a short illness, Dr. Theodorsen died in 1978 at the age of eighty one at his home in Centerport, Long Island, New York.
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