Jens Lothe (25 November 1931 – 26 September 2016) was a Norwegian

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. He was born in

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as a son of principal Jakob Lothe and Borghild Holtung. In 1960 he married Solveig Elisabeth Seeberg. They have resided in

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and

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. He

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his secondary education in 1950 and graduated from the

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with the

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degree in 1955. With a scholarship from

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he studied at the

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from 1957 to 1958, before being appointed as an associate professor at the University of Oslo in 1959. He was an associate professor at the

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from 1960 to 1962,

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at the University of Oslo from 1963 and visiting professor at

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from 1965 to 1966. He took the dr.philos. degree in 1968, and in 1972 he finally became a professor of

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at the University of Oslo. He retired in 2002. In 1973 he became a fellow of the

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, and in the same year he was given the Fridtjof Nansen Excellent Research Award. He was issued a

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for his 60th birthday, in the shape of a special issue of the journal ''

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''. He died on 26 September 2016.

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1931 births Scientists from Oslo University of Oslo alumni Norwegian expatriates in the United Kingdom Norwegian expatriates in the United States Academic staff of the University of Oslo Norwegian physicists Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters 2016 deaths {{Norway-academic-bio-stub