Jostein Goksøyr
Jostein Goksøyr (1922 – 2000) was a Norwegian microbiologist.
He was born in Kopervik, and took the dr.philos. degree in 1955. He was hired as a lecturer at the University of Bergen in 1956, and was later professor from 1966 to 1989. He was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1970 and the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala from 1987.[1]
A planctomycete bacterium, Bythopirellula goksoyri, identified from the iron-hydroxide deposits at the Mohns Ridge, a part of the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge, is named in honour of Goksøyr.[2]
References
- ^ "Goksøyr, Jostein". Store norske leksikon. Kunnskapsforlaget. 2007.
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