Jon Storm-Mathisen (born 16 January 1941 in

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) is a highly cited

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known for his work on the

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and

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of the

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. He is a professor of medicine at the Department of Anatomy at the

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. Storm-Mathiesen completed his

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Oslo Cathedral School Schola Osloensis, known in Norwegian as Oslo Katedralskole (''Oslo Cathedral School'') and more commonly as "Katta",University of Oslo The University of Oslo ( no, Universitetet i Oslo; la, Universitas Osloensis) is a public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the highest ranked and oldest university in Norway. It is consistently ranked among the top universit ...

in 1965, and qualified as doctor of medicine from the same university in 1976. He is a member of the

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(English) 1941 births Living people Norwegian neuroscientists People educated at Oslo Cathedral School University of Oslo alumni Academic staff of the University of Oslo Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters Physicians from Oslo {{Norway-scientist-stub