Background
Olsnes, Sjur was born on August 23, 1939 in Bergen, Norway. Son of Sigvald and Maria (Berge) Olsnes.
Olsnes, Sjur was born on August 23, 1939 in Bergen, Norway. Son of Sigvald and Maria (Berge) Olsnes.
Doctor of Medicine, University Bonn, Germany, 1964. Doctor of Philosophy, University Oslo, 1972. Doctor honoris causa, Engelhardt Institute Molec.
Biological, Moscow, 1997. Doctor honoris causa, Moscow Medical Academy, 2007.
He took his medicine degree at the University of Bonn, and worked at the University of Bergen from 1967 to 1968 before being hired at the Norwegian Radium Hospital. He took the dr.med. degree at the University of Oslo in 1972 and was promoted to professor in 1989, retiring in 2009. He was a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and the Russian Academy of Sciences.
He was a prolific facilitator of Norwegian-Russian academic cooperation.
Member European Molecular Biology Organization (life), Academia Europaea (life), Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi (life), Russian Academy of Sciences (foreign and life member), American Academy Microbiology (life).
Married Barbara Tubylewicz Kwiatkowska, January 5, 1971. 1 child, Astrid Marta.