About Arnor Njøs
Lived 1930 – 2019 (aged 88). Arnor Njøs was a Norwegian scientist.
Arnor Njøs (21 June 1930 – 1 May 2019) was a Norwegian soil scientist.
He was born in Leinstrand Municipality. He graduated from the Norwegian College of Agriculture in 1955, and took the M.Sc. degree at the University of Illinois in 1961. He was a professor at the Norwegian College of Agriculture from 1979 to 1989, serving as rector from 1984 to 1989, and headed the Norwegian Centre for Soil and Environmental Research from 1990 to 1995.
He was decorated as a Knight, First Class of the Order of St. Olav in 1997. In 1998 an honorary degree at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences was bestowed upon him. He died in 2019.
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Who was Arnor Njøs?
Norwegian soil researcher (1930-2019)
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Arnor Njøs was born on 21 June 1930.
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Arnor Njøs died on 1 May 2019.
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Arnor Njøs was a scientist.
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Arnor Njøs was Norwegian.
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