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Jens Erik Fenstad (1935-2020)

Jens Erik Fenstad - Abelprisens første styreleder har gått bort
https://www.abelprisen.no/nyheter/vis.html?tid=76186

Professor emeritus i matematikk ved Universitetet i Oslo Jens Erik 
Fenstad, gikk bort 14.4.2020 etter kort tids sykdom. Han ble 84 år. Jens 
Erik Fenstad var en av Abelprisens viktigste talsmenn og støttespillere, 
og den første Abelstyrelederen.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jens_Erik_Fenstad

Jens Erik Fenstad (15 April 1935-13 April 2020) was a Norwegian 
mathematician. He graduated as mag.scient. from the University of Oslo in 
1959, and worked as a research fellow there and at UC Berkeley. He was a 
professor at the University of Oslo from 1968 to 2003, except for the 
years 1989 to 1993, when he was vice rector (prorektor). On 29 May 1998 
Fensted received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Science and 
Technology at Uppsala University, Sweden. He served in the Executive 
Committee of the Division for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science 
of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science as 
Treasurer from 1975 to 1983 and as President from 1991 to 1995.

He chaired the Norwegian Mathematical Society and the World Commission on 
Ethics (COMEST) of the UNESCO, and co-founded the Abel Prize. He has also 
edited the journal Nordisk Matematisk Tidsskrift. He was a member of the 
Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. He resided in Osterå and passed 
away on 13 April 2020 from Covid-19.
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