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List of the most influential people in Computer Science,

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Farida Fassi

#142726

Overall Influence

Farida Fassi FAAS is a Moroccan professor of physics at Mohammed V University in Rabat. She is the co-founder of the African Strategy for Fundamental Applied Physics and a member of African Academy of Sciences.

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Marika Vicziany

#33686

Overall Influence

Marika Vicziany is a professor of Asian Political Economy at Political and Social Inquiry , Monash University. She is a Former Director of the Monash Asia Institute at Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. A PhD from SOAS, University of London, she is an expert in South Asian studies. Her current research interests include regional and human security, rise of India and China and the cultural and religious issues particularly related to Hinduism and Islam.

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Siti Aisyah Alias

#89358

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Siti Aisah Binti Hj Alias is a Malaysian marine polar researcher and lecturer. As of August 2016, she is Associate Professor and Director of the National Antarctic Research Centre in the Malaysian Antarctic Research Programme , at the University of Malaya. Her work focuses on the physiology of marine and polar microbes and fungi.

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Christof Ebert

#184848

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Christof Ebert is a German computer scientist and entrepreneur. He studied electrical engineering and computer sciences from 1984 to 1990 at the University of Stuttgart and Kansas State University. In 1994, he received his Ph.D. at the University of Stuttgart on complexity control during the product life-cycle. From 1994 to 2007, he worked at Alcatel: first in Stuttgart, then, in 1996, in Antwerp, and, as of 2001, in Paris. As director of engineering, he had global responsibility for software platforms and technology. Recognizing his contributions in productivity improvement, systems engineering, and product lifecycle management, he was named member of Alcatel's technical academy.

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Robert Boyce

#73565

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Robert William Dewar Boyce is a professional historian and was a senior lecturer in International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science . His main fields of interest are French external relations in the twentieth century, the role of economics, business and banking in modern international relations, Canadian external relations since 1900, and the modern history of international communications.

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Karl Kasten

#83039

Overall Influence

1916 - 2010 (94 years)

Karl Albert Kasten was a painter-printmaker-educator in the San Francisco Bay Area. Early life Kasten, fourth child of Ferdinand Kasten and his wife Barbara Anna Kasten, grew up in San Francisco's Richmond District. He was a student of art from an early age and regularly competed with his older brother Fred in battleship drawing contests. Fred eventually gave up but Karl continued. At times, Kasten's art seemingly got in the way of his schoolwork and his sixth grade teacher was driven to send a note home: "Dear Mr. Kasten, Do something about your son. All he wants to do is draw. He's not payi...

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Art Rosenbaum

#131615

Overall Influence

1938 - 2022 (84 years)

Arthur Spark Rosenbaum was an American art professor at the University of Georgia, an artist, musician, and folklorist. He won a Grammy award in 2008 for Best Historical Album, for his music collection Art Of Field Recording Volume I: Fifty Years Of Traditional American Music Documented By Art Rosenbaum.

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Valerio Pascucci

#185949

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Overview Valerio Pascucci is an Italian computer scientist. He is the John R. Parks Inaugural Endowed Chair of the University of Utah, and the Founding Director of the Center for Extreme Data Management Analysis and Visualization . Valerio is a faculty of the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute , a Professor of Computer Science of the School of Computing of the University of Utah, and was named Laboratory Fellow at PNNL. His research interests are in the areas of scientific visualization, High Performance Computing, large scale scientific data management, and Computational Topology.

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Jessica Abel

#108845

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Jessica Abel is an American comic book writer and artist, known as the creator of such works as Life Sucks, Drawing Words & Writing Pictures, Soundtrack, La Perdida, Mirror, Window, Radio: An Illustrated Guide , and the omnibus series Artbabe.

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Sue de Beer

#129831

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Sue de Beer is a contemporary artist who lives and works in New York City. De Beer's work is located at the intersection of film, installation, sculpture, and photography, and she is primarily known for her large-scale film-installations.

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Harry Garland

#179092

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Harry T. Garland is a scientist, engineer, author, and entrepreneur who co-founded Cromemco Inc., one of the earliest and most successful microcomputer companies. He received the B.A. degree in mathematics from Kalamazoo College, and the Ph.D. degree in biophysics from Stanford University. Dr. Garland has been recognized as one of the most important innovators in the development of personal computers in Silicon Valley.

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Philip LeDuc

#160976

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Philip LeDuc is the William J. Brown Professor at Carnegie Mellon University and the Founding Director of its Center for the Mechanics and Engineering of Cellular Systems. He is in the department of Mechanical Engineering, but also has appointments in Biological Sciences, Computational Biology, Biomedical Engineering, and Electrical and Computer Engineering. LeDuc works at the intersection of mechanical engineering and biology.

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Alexander Strehl

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Overall Influence

Alexander Strehl is a computer scientist, management consultant and business school professor. His areas of expertise are machine learning, consensus clustering, business intelligence, big data, artificial intelligence, cluster analysis, data mining, entrepreneurship and digital transformation. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, was the creator of cluster ensembles, a director of flatfox AG, and a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. He is currently teaching at the University of Aalen and serves as an independent industry consultant.

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Zijian Zheng

#189553

Overall Influence

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Michael Murphy

#72651

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Michael George Murphy is an American film, television and stage actor. He often plays unethical or morally ambiguous characters in positions of authority, including politicians, executives, administrators, clerics, doctors, law enforcement agents, judges and lawyers. He is also known for his frequent collaborations with director Robert Altman, having appeared in twelve films, TV series and miniseries directed by Altman from 1963 to 2004, including the title role in the miniseries Tanner '88. He had roles in the films Manhattan, An Unmarried Woman, Nashville, The Year of Living Dangerously, P...

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Stefaan Verhulst

#110643

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Stefaan G. Verhulst is the co-founder and chief research and development officer of The Governance Laboratory at New York University. His research and writing considers how advances in technology and science can be harnessed to create effective and collaborative forms of governance.

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Lawrence Lee Pelletier

#101079

Overall Influence

1914 - 1995 (81 years)

Lawrence Lee Pelletier was the 16th president of Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania. His tenure in that post was the second longest in the College's history. Life and education Pelletier was born in Farmington, New Hampshire, and grew up in Sanford, Maine. He graduated cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Bowdoin College in 1936. He received an MA and a PhD degree from Harvard University.

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Lára Jóhannsdóttir

Lára Jóhannsdóttir

#186924

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Lára Jóhannsdóttir is a professor in the Faculty of Business Administration at the University of Iceland. She is also a member of the faculty in the Environment and Natural Resources Graduate Programme, an interdisciplinary program with ties to all five Schools of the University, but administratively part of the School of Engineering and Natural Sciences. Lára was the academic director of the ENR Programme in 2019, and is the first female professor in the faculty of Business Administration.

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Mack B. Stokes

#63497

Overall Influence

1911 - 2012 (101 years)

Marion "Mack" Boyd Stokes was an American bishop of the United Methodist Church, elected in 1972. He was born in Wonsan, Korea of missionary parents. He is a graduate of Asbury College , Duke Divinity School , and Boston University . He was a professor of systematic theology and Christian doctrine at Candler School of Theology at Emory University from 1941 until 1972. After retiring as a bishop, Stokes served as associate dean and professor of theology at Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, Oklahoma. He died at the age of 100 in 2012.

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Sergio Carbajo

#189038

Overall Influence

Sergio Carbajo is a Basque-Spanish-American scientist and educator, musician and composer , and creative writer. He is an assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Sciences with apppointments in the Electrical & Computer Engineering and Physics & Astronomy departments. He is also a scientist at Stanford University’s Photon Science Division at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

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Dipyaman Ganguly

#96069

Overall Influence

Dipyaman Ganguly is an Indian physician-scientist immunologist and cell biologist, currently a Principal Scientist and Swarnajayanthi Fellow at the CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology . He heads the Dendritic Cell Laboratory of IICB, popularly known as the Ganguly Lab, where he hosts several researchers involved in research on regulation of innate Immunity and pathogenesis of inflammatory disorders. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology...

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Brian David Smith

#78563

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Brian David Smith is a strategic management consultant, academic and author. His particular interests include the evolution of business models and competitive strategies in the life science sector, particularly pharmaceuticals and medical technology. His academic research on these topics informs both his consultancy and writing.

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Birgit Skrotzki

#168066

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Birgit Skrotzki is the head of the division Experimental and Model Based Mechanical Behaviour of Materials at the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing and an extraordinary professor at the Technical University of Berlin.

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Giovanni Aquilecchia

#114031

Overall Influence

1923 - 2001 (78 years)

Giovanni Aquilecchia, was Professor of Italian at Bedford College, London, and the merged college with Royal Holloway, University of London. He was one of the great Italian Renaissance scholars of the second half of the 20th century.

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John Wilson

#46821

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

John Richard Wilson is a British journalist and broadcaster. He is the son of former professional footballer and television sports presenter Bob Wilson. Life and career John Wilson was born in London in 1965. He attended Chancellor's School in Hertfordshire and studied at the then Dorset Institute of Higher Education, gaining a BA in English and Media awarded by the University of Southampton in 1988. He worked as a reporter on local newspapers in north London before beginning his radio career in 1990, presenting and reporting for the Radio 5 magazine show The Mix. He has presented numerous p...

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Seshagiri Rao Vellanki

#187439

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Dr. Seshagiri Rao Vellanki is an Indian scientist and is former distinguished scientist and associate director of the Satish Dhawan Space Centre , Indian Space Research Organisation . He worked in ISRO for more than 39 years in various capacities. In addition to that, he also served in ISRO as Prof. Satish Dhawan for three years. He is instrumental in setting up state of the art Real Time Systems and computer network for flight safety at SDSC SHAR. He is also responsible in developing data processing software required for displaying flight trajectory. He is a specialist in Kalman Filter. Pulse Coherent Mono-pulse Radars development and commissioning was carried under his leadership.

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Roger Craig

#181018

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (49 years)

Roger Alan Craig is an American game show contestant and computer scientist. He held the record for highest single-day winnings on the quiz show Jeopardy! from September 14, 2010 to April 9, 2019 . In 2011, Craig returned to win the Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions.

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Juliane Nguyen

#177987

Overall Influence

Juliane Nguyen is a professor at UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. She received her PharmD and PhD from Philipps-Universität Marburg in Germany, completing her PhD in Thomas Kissel's group. After receiving her degrees, she completed a Post doc with Francis Szoka at University of California, San Francisco. Her research is focused on exosomes and lipid based drug delivery systems. She was awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2018 for her work as well as over $13M from the NIH and other funding sources. Nguyen’s work has been recognized with numerous awards, including the CMBE You...

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Johanna R. Rochester

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David George Watts

#93298

Overall Influence

1931 - 2016 (85 years)

David George Watts , known as George Watts, was an English local historian closely associated with the work of the Victoria County History and the history of Titchfield, Hampshire. Early life David Watts was born on 14 May 1931, at the Old Inn House, West Street, Titchfield, Hampshire. His family were strawberry growers which was an important local industry. In a local history talk he recalled that as a boy he could walk from Titchfield to Warsash alongside strawberry fields the whole distance. His family aimed to harvest their first crop by mid-May and the berries were sold as far away as Gl...

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Robert Yarber

#91196

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Robert Yarber is an American painter and Professor of Art at Pennsylvania State University. He received a BFA from Cooper Union in 1971, and an MFA from Louisiana State University in 1973. Yarber gained international attention when his work was included in "Paradise Lost/Paradise Regained: American Visions of the New Decade", an exhibit organized by the New Museum for display in the American Pavilion at the 41st Venice Biennale in 1984. At the Venice Biennale, he was one of twenty-four artists represented in the United States pavilion. Yarber gained further prominence with his inclusion in the Whitney Biennial in 1985.

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Amy Mullin

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Overall Influence

Amy S. Mullin is an American chemist and professor at the University of Maryland. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Optical Society of America. Her research focuses on molecular dynamics.

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David Cleevely

#180758

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

David Douglas Cleevely, CBE, FREng, FIET is a British entrepreneur and international telecoms expert who has built and advised many companies, principally in Cambridge, UK. Telecommunications In 1985 Cleevely founded the telecommunications consultancy Analysys which became Analysys Mason, when it was acquired by Datatec in 2004. Whilst at Analysys he made a significant contribution to the theory and practice of calculating Universal Service Obligation costs and was involved with a report to the European Commission on VoIP creating the framework for VoIP within the EU and the identification o...

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Feng Pan

#189642

Overall Influence

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Henry Wells

#100865

Overall Influence

1914 - 2007 (93 years)

Henry Wells was an American author, professor and leading expert on Latin America politics. Wells helped to draft the Constitution of Puerto Rico and advised the Dominican Republic on proper election procedures for the Organization of American States. Additionally, Wells worked as international election observer in Honduras, Costa Rica, Bolivia and Nicaragua.

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Jane Golden

#115114

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Jane Golden is an American artist who has been an active mural painter since the 1970s. Background and education Following graduation from Stanford University, Golden moved to Los Angeles and created a number of large, well received murals in the Los Angeles beach areas, particularly in Santa Monica, in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She was co-founder and director of the Los Angeles Public Art Foundation.

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Carrie Ann Baade

#109960

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Carrie Ann Baade is an American painter whose work has been described by Curator of Contemporary Art Margaret Winslow as "autobiographical parables combin fragments of Renaissance and Baroque religious paintings, resulting in surreal landscapes inhabited by exotic flora, fauna, and figures." The context and the compositional building blocks of her work are fragments of historical masterpieces, which Baade reinterprets using her original feminist and autobiographical perspective. She currently lives in Tallahassee, Florida, where she is a professor in the Department of Art at Florida State Uni...

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Brad R. Roth

#107771

Overall Influence

Brad Richard Roth is a professor of political science and law at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. Biography His research has focused on international law, political theory, and human rights. He received a B.A. from Swarthmore College, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, an LL.M. from Columbia Law School, and a PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. He has been described by James Gathii as a neoconservative realist in reference to Roth's book Governmental Illegitimacy in International Law.. This description has been rejected by Roth in his response to Gathii's review. Roth a...

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Saburo Muraoka

#175239

Overall Influence

1928 - 2013 (85 years)

Saburō Muraoka was a Japanese modern and contemporary artist born in Osaka. Career Known primarily as a sculptor, Muraoka first received artistic recognition in 1949 as a student at the Osaka City Art Institute , a school associated with Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts, with his plaster bust "Neck." With this work he received the second Osaka Mayor prize while exhibited at the annual Osaka City Exhibition. He became affiliated with the Nika Society in 1950 and showed in the annual Nika Exhibition from 1950 until 1969 when he withdrew from the Society. At a young age he became fascinated by as...

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J. Robert Nelson

#73849

Overall Influence

1920 - 2004 (84 years)

J. Robert Nelson was an American Methodist theologian, academic administrator, and ethicist. He was the dean of the Vanderbilt University Divinity School from 1957 to 1960, and a professor of ecumenism at Boston University School of Theology from 1965 to 1984. He was the author of several books and published research about the relationship between cloning and Christian ethics.

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Mohammad Tahir Shah

Mohammad Tahir Shah

#69970

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Dr. Mohammad Tahir Shah is a professor at the National Centre of Excellence in Geology at the University of Peshawar. He has served at the NCEG since 2013. He was previously selected as the vice-chancellor of the Fata University by the Governor Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Sardar Mahtab Ahmad Khan.

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Andrea Volkamer

#189246

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (44 years)

Andrea Volkamer is a German bioinformatician and professor of “Data-Driven Drug Design” at Saarland University and an associated researcher at the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland . Her research focuses on data-driven drug design, with an emphasis on method development and application.

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Raj Rampersaud

#114804

Overall Influence

Yoga Raja "Raj" Rampersaud is a Canadian orthopedic surgeon at Toronto Western Hospital. He is known for his advocacy of interprofessional models of health care. He is a professor at the University of Toronto.

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Karen Boyle

#98922

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Karen Elizabeth Boyle , is Professor of Feminist Media Studies at the University of Strathclyde, previously she was professor of Feminist Studies at the University of Stirling, and before that was a lecturer in film and television studies at the University of Glasgow. She has published a number of articles on feminism, violence and pornography.

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Paul Lambert

#79943

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Paul Lambert is an English visual effects supervisor at Wylie Co. He has won three Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects: one for the 2017 film Blade Runner 2049 at the 90th Academy Awards, one for the 2018 film First Man at the 91st Academy Awards., and his recent one in 2022, at the 94th Academy Awards, for his work on Dune.

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Gottfried Honegger

Gottfried Honegger

#32312

Overall Influence

1917 - 2016 (99 years)

Gottfried Honegger was a Swiss artist and graphic designer. He was married to the Swiss illustrator Warja Lavater. He studied shop-window display at the Zurich Kunstgewerbeschule and taught there from 1948. His early work was commercial graphic design.

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Marija Zdravković

#186211

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Marija Zdravković is a Serbian medical doctor, administrator, and politician. She has been the director of the hospital Bežanijska Kosa in Belgrade since 2014. Zdravković briefly served in the National Assembly of Serbia and the City Assembly of Belgrade in 2022. She is a member of the Serbian Progressive Party .

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Daniel M. Albert

Daniel M. Albert

#100194

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Daniel M. Albert is an American ophthalmologist, ocular cancer researcher, medical historian, and collector of rare books and ocular equipment. As of 2018, he is Professor of Ophthalmology at the Casey Eye Institute, Oregon Health & Science University.

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Jay Coogan

#146341

Overall Influence

Jay Coogan is an American artist and an academic currently serving as the third President of IYRS School of Technology & Trades. Coogan most recently had served as the sixteenth president of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design .

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Åsmund Reikvam

#178477

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Åsmund Ragnar Reikvam is a Norwegian professor in medicine and former politician. Education He graduated as dr. med. in 1976 and became a specialist in Internal medicine and Heart disease in 1981. He worked at Ullevål university hospital and Sogn og Fjordane central hospital, the latter as head physician in 1983–1984 and 1989–1992. In 1999 he was appointed professor in pharmacotherapeutics at the University of Oslo.

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