Jostein Goksøyr
Jostein Goksøyr (28 June 1922 – 5 December 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.
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. Provided by Wikipedia
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1by Wiik, Ragnhild, Egidius, Emmy, Goksøyr, JosteinGet access
Published in Diseases of Aquatic Organisms (1987)
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