Arnljot Elgsæter
Arnljot Elgsæter (born 19 March 1944 in Kistrand) is a Norwegian physicist.
He is now a professor emeritus who held a tenured position at the Department of Physics at the Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH) / Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) from 1974 to 2009. While at NTNU, he served twice as department chair and once as dean.[1] He holds a master of technology in Engineering physics from NTH in 1969, and received a Ph.D. in biophysics from University of California, Berkeley in 1971, under the supervision of Daniel Branton.[2]
Arnljot Elgsæter is a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters[3] and the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences.[4]
References[]
- ^ Asle Sudbø, "A glance at 2009", Annual Report 2009, Department of Physics, NTNU, retrieved 2012-11-16.
- ^ People: Prof. Arnljot Elgsaeter[permanent dead link], Waywiser, Harvard University Department of the History of Science, retrieved 2012-11-16.
- ^ Gruppe V Biokjemi, biofysikk og molekylær biologi Archived 2013-12-21 at the Wayback Machine Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, retrieved 2012-11-26.
- ^ "Medlemmer: ELGSÆTER, Arnljot" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences. Retrieved 29 November 2012.
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The ethnic origin of Arnljot Elgsaeter is about 1/8 North-Saami, 1/4 Kven (Finnish), the rest ‘’ethnic Norwegian’’. His mother spoke the North-Saami language all her life and did not speak a word Norwegian until she entered public primary school. Because of his scientific background, Arnljot Elgsaeter early on showed great interest in what the new revolutionary prehistoric DNA data on early European population migrations might reveal about his North-Saami ancestors.
As of 2021, he views the following as the most significant information related to the origin of the North-Saamis:
1) The historic development of the Uralic languages spoken in North-East Europe has been studied in great detail. These studies reveal that the Saami language was not established until about 2000 years ago by people living in Karelen and North Finland. The people speaking these Uralic languages all have North-Siberian ancestors. The early 100% Finnish Saamis thus were identified by their language rather than their biological origin.
2) Detailed recent DNA studies of the paternal line (the y-chromosome) of several North-Saami families (YFull.com) reveal that the paternal line of all these families merges with the paternal lines of people living in Finland/Karelen about 2000 years ago. This means that the forefathers of the North-Saamis left Finland/Karelen for Finnmark, Norway about 2000 years ago.
3) The prehistoric ancestors of a large number of individuals for Northern Scandinavia have been studied using the analytic tools offered at the website GEDmatch.com. These results show that the prehistoric ancestor of those with the highest known percentage of North-Saami ancestors is about half Western European Stone age hunter-gatherers and half North-Siberians. This means that all the forefathers of the North-Saamis were 100% Finnish Saamis and those who brought with them the Saami language and culture to Finnmark. Because we all have one-half of our DNA from each of our parents this implies that all the foremothers were women belonging to the original stone-age people living at the coast of Finnmark at the time the 100% Finnish Saamis colonized Finnmark about 2000 years ago. This also reveals that the invading 100% Finnish Saamis did not bring with them any females from Finland to Finnmark, Norway. The first North-Saami children, therefore, were not born earlier than about 2000 years ago. It also is worth noting that from a biological point of view the North-Saami children were only half-Saami; One half Western European and one-half North-Siberian.
4) To the dismay of many the DNA-testing service at 23andMe.com reports back that most persons with a known high percentage of North-Saami ancestry are about 70% Finnish. But recalling that the West European Stone age people account for the prehistoric ancestor of both North-Saamis and modern Finns plus that North-Siberians account for about 20% of the prehistoric ancestor of modern Finns the result presented by 23andMe is not at all surprising. 23andme further reports that the North-Saamis many relatives now living and Finland and Karelia.
5) The North-Saami language has a large number of loan words from the Scandinavian stone-age language that is not found in the variants of the Saami language spoken elsewhere. The loanwords are all words associated with the local coastal Stone Age way of life. This can only have come about if the Finnish Saami masters themselves fully adopted the coastal Stone Age of way of life. This in turn can only mean that the North-Saamis from day one were Coastal-Saamis (Norwegian: Sjøsamer) and it was the Coastal-Saami culture that the sole carriers of the North-Saami culture for the subsequent millennium.
Use of the modern DNA/techniques summarized above provided for the first time the prehistoric genetic profile of the North/Saami ancestors. This was an important historical breakthrough. Together with the new y-DNA data from 2020 to 2021 the now are available hard scientific results that tell us when the 100% Finnis Saamis left Finland/Karelia and subsequently colonized Finmark, Norway.
Currently, no alternative hypothesis for the origins of the North-Saamis has been presented that fully considers the important new DNA data described above.
- 1944 births
- Living people
- People from Porsanger
- Norwegian physicists
- Norwegian Institute of Technology alumni
- University of California, Berkeley alumni
- Norwegian expatriates in the United States
- Norwegian Institute of Technology faculty
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology faculty
- Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters
- Members of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences