About Jostein Goksøyr
Lived 1922 – 2000 (aged 78). Jostein Goksøyr was a Norwegian biologist, botanist and university teacher.
Jostein Goksøyr (28 June 1922 – 5 December 2000) was a Norwegian microbiologist.
He was born in Kopervik, and took the dr.philos. degree in 1955. He was hired as a lecturer at the University of Bergen in 1956, and was later professor from 1966 to 1989. He was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1970 and the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala from 1987.
A planctomycete bacterium, Bythopirellula goksoyri, identified from the iron-hydroxide deposits at the Mohns Ridge, a part of the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge, is named in honour of Goksøyr.
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Norwegian microbiologist (1922-2000)
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Jostein Goksøyr was born on 28 June 1922 in Karmøy.
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Jostein Goksøyr died on 5 December 2000 in Bergen.
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Jostein Goksøyr was a biologist, botanist and university teacher.
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Jostein Goksøyr was Norwegian.
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