Herman Høst (17 April 1926 – 14 September 2023) was a Norwegian physician.
Høst was born in
Bærum as a son of physician
Herman Fleischer Høst. He graduated with the
cand.med.
Candidate of Medicine ( la, candidatus medicinae (male), ''candidata medicinae'' (female), abbreviated cand. med.) is an academic degree awarded in Denmark, Iceland, and Norway following a six-year medical school education.
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degree in 1951 and took the
dr.med.
Doctor Medicinae, also spelled Doctor Medicinæ and abbreviated Dr. Med., is a higher doctoral degree (a research doctorate) in medicine awarded by universities in Denmark and formerly in Norway. It is officially translated as Doctor of Medical S ...
degree in 1966. He was a chief physician at the
Norwegian Radium Hospital from 1974 and a professor of radiological cancer therapy at the
University of Oslo from 1975. From 1980 to 1985 he was the
dean of the Faculty of Medicine. He was also a member of the
Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. He retired in 1996.
Høst died on 14 September 2023, at the age of 97.
References
1926 births
2023 deaths
Norwegian nuclear medicine physicians
Academic staff of the University of Oslo
Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
People from Bærum
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