Background
He was born in Oslo as a son of professor of medicine January Birger Jansen (1898–1984) and Helene Sofie Schøning (1902–1976).
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Jan Kristian Schøning Jansen
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Jan Kristian Schøning Jansen, Norwegian physiologist, neuroscientist. Recipient Anders Jahres pris Jahres Foundation, 1967, Monrad Krohns Legat, nevrologisk Forening, 1982, Fridtjof Nansen's award, 1997. Member Norwegian Academy of Sciences (board directors 1989-1992), Academia Europaea, Physiological Society.
Education
He finished his secondary education at Berg Upper Secondary School in 1949 and studied at the University of Oslo under his father and Birger Kaada.
Career
He specialized in neurophysiology. He took the candidate.med. degree in 1955, and in 1957 he took the dr.med. degree with the thesis Afferent impulses to the cerebellar hemispheres from the cerebral cortex and certain subcortical nuclei. An electro-anatomical study in the cat.
In 1959 he started studies at the University Laboratory of Physiology in Oxford.
He was hired as a docent at the University of Oslo in 1968, worked under Stephen Kuffler and John Nicholls at Harvard University from 1969 to 1970, and was a professor at the University of Oslo from 1979 to 1995.
Achievements
Membership
Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters]
He was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1977, and chairman of the Nansen Fund.
Connections
Married Lisbeth Bjørneby, April 10, 1954 (divorced March 15, 1974). Children: Elisabeth, Cathrine, Jan B., Peder A., Tobias. Married Helen Troye, June 22, 1981.
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Education
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1955
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1957
Career
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1957 - 1958
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1959 - 1960
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1961 - 1968
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1968 - 1978
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1969 - 1971
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1979