Jens Lothe

{{Short description|Norwegian physicist (1931–2016)}} '''Jens Lothe''' (25 November 1931 – 26 September 2016) was a Norwegian [[physicist]].

He was born in [[Oslo]] as a son of principal Jakob Lothe and Borghild Holtung. In 1960 he married Solveig Elisabeth Seeberg.<ref name=hvem>{{cite encyclopedia|year=1973|title=Lothe, Jens|encyclopedia=[[Hvem er hvem?]]|editor=Steenstrup, Bjørn|publisher=Aschehoug|location=Oslo|url=https://runeberg.org/hvemerhvem/1973/0350.html|page=350|language=Norwegian|access-date=22 April 2014}}</ref> They have resided in [[Blommenholm]]<ref>{{cite news|title=Jens Lothe 60 år 25. november|date=6 November 1991|language=Norwegian|agency=Norwegian News Agency}}</ref> and [[Vøyenenga]].<ref name=ntb/>

He [[examen artium|finished]] his secondary education in 1950 and graduated from the [[University of Oslo]] with the [[cand.real.]] degree in 1955. With a scholarship from [[NTNF]] he studied at the [[University of Bristol]] from 1957 to 1958, before being appointed as an associate professor at the University of Oslo in 1959. He was an associate professor at the [[Carnegie Institute of Technology]] from 1960 to 1962, [[docent]] at the University of Oslo from 1963 and visiting professor at [[Ohio State University]] from 1965 to 1966.<ref name=hvem/>

He took the [[dr.philos.]] degree in 1968, and in 1972 he finally became a professor of [[solid-state physics]] at the University of Oslo.<ref name=hvem/><ref name=snl>{{cite encyclopedia|year=|title=Jens Lothe|encyclopedia=[[Store norske leksikon]]|editor=|publisher=|location=|url=http://www.snl.no/Jens_Lothe|language=Norwegian|accessdate=22 April 2014}}</ref> He retired in 2002.<ref name=ntb>{{cite news|title=75 år 25. november: Professor Jens Lothe|date=3 November 2006|language=Norwegian|agency=Norwegian News Agency}}</ref>

In 1973 he became a fellow of the [[Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters]], and in the same year he was given the Fridtjof Nansen Excellent Research Award.<ref name=ntb/> He was issued a [[Festschrift]] for his 60th birthday, in the shape of a special issue of the journal ''[[Physica Scripta]]''.<ref>{{cite news|title=Fag og fest for Jens Lothe|last=Jøssang|first=Torstein|date=25 November 1991|page=10|work=Aftenposten|language=Norwegian}}</ref> He died on 26 September 2016.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.aftenposten.no/personalia/Nekrolog-Jens-Lothe-606115b.html|title=Nekrolog: Jens Lothe |date=5 October 2016 }}</ref>

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