Arnor Njøs (21 June 1930 – 1 May 2019) was a Norwegian soil scientist. He was born in Leinstrand Municipality. He graduated from the Norwegian College of Agriculture in 1955, and took the M.Sc. degree at the

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in 1961. He was a professor at the Norwegian College of Agriculture from 1979 to 1989, serving as rector from 1984 to 1989, and headed the Norwegian Centre for Soil and Environmental Research from 1990 to 1995. He was decorated as a Knight, First Class of the

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in 1997. In 1998 an

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at the

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was bestowed upon him. He died in 2019.

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