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Place of Birth: Tromsø municipality, Northern Norway, Norway
About Arne Foldvik
- Arne Foldvik (born 6 April 1930) is a Norwegian oceanographer. He was born in Tromsø as a son of as a son of meteorologist Nils M.
- Foldvik and Helene Andresen.
- In 1956 he married teacher Ninja Schibbye Danifer, a daughter of painter Sigurd Danifer.He finished his secondary education in 1948 and took the cand.real.
- at the University of Oslo in 1957.
- After a period as research fellow from 1955 to 1960, at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters's Institute for Weather and Climate Research led by Einar Høiland, he was hired as a lecturer at the University of Bergen in 1960.
- He took the dr.philos.
- degree here in 1968, was promoted to docent in 1976 and professor in 1985.
- He also helped build the University Centre in Svalbard.
- He is a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters since 1992.
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