Arnor Njøs is a Norwegian soil researcher.

He was born in Leinstrand

Leinstrand

Leinstrand is a former municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The area of Leinstrand encompasses the south central part of the city of Trondheim. The local Leinstrand Church was built in 1673.-History:...

. He graduated from the Norwegian College of Agriculture in 1955, and took the M.Sc. degree at the University of Illinois in 1961. He was a professor at the Norwegian College of Agriculture from 1979 to 1989, serving as rector

Rector

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 from 1984 to 1989, and headed the Norwegian Centre for Soil and Environmental Research from 1990 to 1995.