John Stuart Gray (21 August 1941 – 21 October 2007) was a British-Norwegian marine biologist. He was born in

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, but migrated to Norway. After his PHD degree in 1965, he took the dr.scient. degree in 1976 and became a professor at the

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. He was a member of the

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from 1980 and won the

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in 1998.

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1941 births 2007 deaths British marine biologists British emigrants to Norway Academic staff of the University of Oslo Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters {{UK-academic-bio-stub