Håkon Wexelsen (9 August 1898–26 June 1979) was a Norwegian

plant geneticist Plants are the eukaryotes that form the kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly photosynthetic. This means that they obtain their energy from sunlight, using chloroplasts derived from endosymbiosis with cyanobacteria to produce sugars fro ...

. He was born at

Bærum Bærum () is a list of municipalities of Norway, municipality in the Greater Oslo Region in Akershus County, Norway. It forms an affluent suburb of Oslo on the west coast of the city. Bærum is Norway's fifth largest municipality with a populatio ...

Akershus Akershus () is a county in Norway, with Oslo as its administrative centre, though Oslo is not located within Akershus. Akershus has been a region in Eastern Norway with Oslo as its main city since the Middle Ages, and is named after the Akers ...

, Norway. He took the dr.agric. degree in 1946, and was a professor at the

Norwegian College of Agriculture The Norwegian University of Life Sciences (, NMBU) is a public university located in Ås, Norway. It is located in Akershus county and has around 7,700 students. History The institution was established in 1859 as the Higher Agricultural Coll ...

from 1947 to 1968. He served as rector there from 1957 to 1960.

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1898 births 1979 deaths People from Bærum 20th-century Norwegian botanists Academic staff of the Norwegian College of Agriculture Rectors of the Norwegian University of Life Sciences {{Norway-botanist-stub