Jan Kristian Schøning Jansen (16 January 1931 – 8 January 2011) was a Norwegian physiologist. He was born in Oslo as a son of professor of medicine

Jan Birger Jansen Jan Birger Jansen (25 September 1898 – 24 November 1984) was a Norwegian physician, anatomist and scientist, specializing in brain research. He played an important role in the Norwegian civil resistance during the Second World War. Per ...

(1898–1984) and Helene Sofie Schøning (1902–1976). He was married to Lisbeth Bjørneby from 1954 to 1974 and to Helen Troye from 1981. He

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his secondary education at

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in 1949 and studied at the University of Oslo under his father and

Birger Kaada Birger Rygg Kaada (11 July 1918 – 30 January 2000) was a Norwegian physician and neurophysiologist. Kaada was born in Jørpeland to merchant Theodor Kaada and Anna Rygg. He established the institution ''Nevrofysiologisk laboratorium'' in 1 ...

. He specialized in neurophysiology. He took the

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degree in 1955, and in 1957 he took the

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degree with the thesis ''Afferent impulses to the cerebellar hemispheres from the cerebral cortex and certain subcortical nuclei. An electro-anatomical study in the cat''. In 1959 he started studies at the University Laboratory of Physiology in Oxford. He won the Andres Jahre Prize for Young Researchers together with

Per Andersen Per Oskar Andersen (12 January 1930 – 17 February 2020) was a Norwegian brain researcher at the University of Oslo. Research by his lab, specifically by Terje Lømo (and Timothy Bliss, who helped characterize the phenomenon years later), led to ...

in 1967. He was hired as a

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at the University of Oslo in 1968, worked under Stephen Kuffler and John Nicholls at Harvard University from 1969 to 1970, and was a professor at the University of Oslo from 1979 to 1995. He was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1977, and chairman of the

Nansen Fund Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen (; 10 October 186113 May 1930) was a Norwegian polymath and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He gained prominence at various points in his life as an explorer, scientist, diplomat, and humanitarian. He led the team t ...

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