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Guro Else Gjellestad (born 11th August 1914 in Bergen, died 11th January 1972) was a Norwedian physicist and lecturer at the University of Bergen.

Guro Gjellestad was the daugter of the lawyer Axel Severin Gjellestad (1881–1932) and Thinka Marie Mathiesen. She was a student at Schnitlers Business School in Bergenand and worked as a typist for an insurance firm from 1933 to 1942. In 1939 she took the examen artium and later began as a student at the University of Olso, where she graduated with a cand. real. in 1950. From 1951 to 1954 she studied in the USA with a Fulbright scholarship, before returning to Oslo as a research fellow in cosmic magnetism and magnetohydrodynamics. In 1955 she became a teaching assistant at the magnetic bureau at the Univercity of Bergen, and was a dosent in geomagnetism and cosmic physics from 1959. From 1961 she steered the magnetic observatory at Dombås, Norway.

In 1964, she guided the soviet cosmonaut Jurij Gagarin to the Geophysics institute in Bergen.

Literature

 * Student from 1939. Oslo. 1964

Other Links

 * «Guro Gjellestad», UiB