Background
Aukland, Knut was born on March 28, 1929 in Vigmostad, Vest-Agder, Norway. Son of Sverre and Sigrid (Christensen) Aukland.
Aukland, Knut was born on March 28, 1929 in Vigmostad, Vest-Agder, Norway. Son of Sverre and Sigrid (Christensen) Aukland.
Examen artium, Hogere Almenskole, Mandal, Norway, 1948. Candidate medical, Bergen University Medical School, Norway, 1954. Doctor of Philosophy, Oslo University, 1965.
Various clinical positions in public health and hospitals, Kristiansand, Maloy, Norway, 1954-1958, 61-62, Porsgrunn, Oslo, Norway, 1954-1958, 61-62. Research fellow department experimental medical research Oslo University, 1958-1961, 63-65, assistant professor department experimental medical research, 1965-1970. Postdoctoral fellow National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 1962-1999.
Professor department physiology University Bergen Medical School, Norway, 1970-1996. Senior researcher Norwegian Research Council, 1996—1999. Visiting professor University California, Davis, 1981-1982, 89-90.
Chairman department physiology University Bergen, 1971-1973, 92, vice dean faculty of medicine, 1976-1979, member university council, 1982-1985. Vice dean Norwegian Medical Research Council, Oslo, 1982-1986. Member Norwegian Council for Cardiovascular Disease, 1988-1994.
Member American Physiological Society (honorary), Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters.
Married Marit Vestrheim, December 20, 1952. Children: Ase, Sverre, Liv, Stein Magnus.