Torstein Jøssang: key obituary facts
Is Torstein Jøssang dead? Yes. Torstein Jøssang died on September 5, 2026, at age 92.
Cause of death: Torstein Jøssang's cause of death has not been publicly confirmed.
What was Torstein Jøssang known for?
He was a Norwegian physicist.
More about Torstein Jøssang
Born: 31 October 1933.
Place of birth: Jørpeland.
Place of death: Blommenholm.
Gender: male.
Occupation: physicist, professor.
Nationality: Norway.
Education: University of Oslo.
Employer: University of Oslo.
Awards: Fridtjof Nansen Award of Excellence, Mathematics-Natural sciences class.
Torstein Jøssang, the Norwegian physicist, died on September 5, 2026, aged 92.
Born in Jørpeland in 1933, he studied at the University of Oslo, earning his cand.real. in 1962 and his dr.philos.
in 1968 after a research tenure at Ohio State University. He later became an associate professor of physics at the University of Oslo in 1969 and a professor there in 1987. Jøssang also worked as a guest scholar in Shenyang, Tel Aviv, Gainesville, Florida and Ponca City, Oklahoma, cooperated closely with physicist Jens Feder, led the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters’ Centre for Advanced Study from 1993 to 2000, and served as editor of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences journal Physica Scripta.