diff --git a/MathLib/Vector3.h b/MathLib/Vector3.h
index 55b36bc8347efbfa4f0482765e3d4c069884b3b9..4650d1f4268d1543239258c0dd52618b6cf4a677 100644
--- a/MathLib/Vector3.h
+++ b/MathLib/Vector3.h
@@ -127,6 +127,16 @@ public:
 		return *this;
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * After applying the normalize operator to the vector its length is 1.0.
+	 */
+	void normalize()
+	{
+		const double s(1/length());
+		for (std::size_t i(0); i < 3; i++)
+			this->_x[i] *= s;
+	}
+
 	/// Returns the length
 	double length(void) const
 	{
diff --git a/Tests/MathLib/TestVector3.cpp b/Tests/MathLib/TestVector3.cpp
index 056fd9372fc3c02fd758d7dbb746d11c03f90048..97274075ca4b17e351beb891fcc3dd0f6340dc2a 100644
--- a/Tests/MathLib/TestVector3.cpp
+++ b/Tests/MathLib/TestVector3.cpp
@@ -155,5 +155,10 @@ TEST(MathLib, TestVector3Multiplications)
 	ASSERT_NEAR(1.0, v[0], std::numeric_limits<double>::epsilon());
 	ASSERT_NEAR(3.0, v[1], std::numeric_limits<double>::epsilon());
 	ASSERT_NEAR(5.0, v[2], std::numeric_limits<double>::epsilon());
+
+	// test normalisation
+	v.normalize();
+	ASSERT_NEAR(1.0, v.length(), std::numeric_limits<double>::epsilon());
+
 }