Bjørn Føyn
Norwegian zoologist and marine biologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Bjørn Føyn was a Norwegian zoologist, especially known for researching the genetics of algae. He was born in Trondhjem as a son of educator and major Anton Christian Føyn and Olga Barth Nielsen . He finished his secondary education at Trondhjem Cathedral School in 1918, and graduated from the Royal Frederick University with the cand.real. degree in 1927. He was a research assistant from 1923 to 1928 at the Royal Frederick University, and then under Max Hartmann at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Biologie from 1929 to 1932. He was also a research fellow in Norway during this period, and from 1932 to 1937 he worked in Bergen. From 1938 to 1968 he was a professor at the University of Oslo. He was elected as a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in 1938, and of the Zoologisch-Botanische Gesellschaft of Vienna in 1963.
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