Ansgar Torvik (9 June 1925 – 18 August 2019) was a Norwegian physician.
He was born in
Lesja and
finished
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his secondary education in 1945. He took the
dr.med.
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degree ar the
University of Oslo in 1958. He also studied in Sweden, and was a
research fellow at
Massachusetts General Hospital
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and
Harvard Medical School. He was assistant chief physician at
Ullevål Hospital
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,
docent
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and professor of
neuropathology at the University of Oslo. He was a fellow of the
Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
References
1925 births
2019 deaths
20th-century Norwegian physicians
University of Oslo alumni
Oslo University Hospital people
Norwegian neuroscientists
Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
Norwegian expatriates in the United States
People from Lesja
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