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About Torstein Jøssang
- Torstein Kristen Fossan Jøssang (born 31 October 1933) is a Norwegian physicist. He was born in Jørpeland.
- He took the cand.real.
- at the University of Oslo in 1962 and took the dr.philos.
- degree at the same institution in 1968, following a research tenure at Ohio State University from 1963 to 1966.
- He has also been a guest scholar in Shenyang, Tel Aviv, Gainesville, Florida and Ponca City, Oklahoma.He became an associate professor of physics at the University in Oslo in 1969 and professor in 1987.
- He has cooperated closely with physicist Jens Feder.
- He led the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters' Centre for Advanced Study from 1993 to 2000, and has edited the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences journal Physica Scripta.He is a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and the Académie Européenne des Sciences, des Arts et des Lettres.He resides at Blommenholm.
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