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About Peter Sjøholt
- Peter Sjøholt (8 July 1925 – 14 July 2011) was a Norwegian geographer. He hailed from Sjøholt in Ørskog.
- He finished his secondary education in 1944, and graduated from the University of Oslo with the cand.
- philol.
- degree in geography in 1955.
- He took the dr.
- philos.
- degree at the University of Bergen in 1982.Sjøholt worked as a high school teacher from 1956 to 1963, and a research fellow from 1963 to 1966.
- From 1967 to 1974 he was a consultant in urban planning.
- He became a docent in economic geography at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (NHH) in 1974, and was promoted to professor in 1986.
- He stepped down as a professor in 1995, but worked until 2002 as a coordinator for NNH's research collaboration with Central American universities.
- He had previously been a visiting scholar at universities in both Latin America and North America.
- He was also involved in administrating research in NAVF and the Research Council of Norway.Sjøholt penned about 180 academic publications, and also contributed in the form of popular science.
- He is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences and the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1990.
- He still lived in Bergen after his retirement, but died in July 2011.
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