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About Emil Spjøtvoll
- Emil Oskar Spjøtvoll (21 July 1940 – 4 March 2002) was a Norwegian mathematician and statistician. Spjøtvoll was born in Hemne.
- He finished his secondary education in 1959 at Trondheim Cathedral School, took the cand.mag.
- degree at the University of Oslo in 1962 and then the cand.real.
- degree in 1964.
- Spjøtvoll lectured at the university from 1965 to 1968, and in 1968 he took the dr.philos.
- degree with the thesis A Mixed Model in the Analysis of Variance.
- Optimal Properties. He was a guest scholar at University of California, Berkeley and the University of Wisconsin, Madison from 1968 to 1970, then docent at the University of Oslo.
- From 1973 to 1983 he was a professor at the Norwegian College of Agriculture.
- Spjøtvoll had guest scholarships in Paris (1980–1981) and Zürich (1982–1983).In 1983 Spjøtvoll was hired at the Norwegian Institute of Technology.
- He was prorector from 1990 to 1993 and rector from 1993 to 1995.
- Spjøtvoll was then the first rector at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, a post he held from 1996 until 31 December 2001.
- He also worked for Statistics Norway and SINTEF.
- Spjøtvoll was originally an opponent of the merger which led to the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, but then turned around and became a defender of the new university.Spjøtvoll was a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences from 1984, the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters from 1985, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1987.
- In 1999 he was decorated as a Commander of the Order of St.
- Olav.He was married twice.
- He died from cancer in March 2002.
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