Bjørn Roar Vassnes is a Norwegian

Norway

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 musician and writer.

He started the folk rock

Folk rock

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 group Erter, Kjøtt og Flesk with Jens Harald Eilertsen in Tromsø

Tromsø

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 in 1972, and was the guitar player for the band. After one LP in 1973 the band dissolved. In Bergen

Bergen

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 in 1979 he started the ska-inspired band Nøkken with Turid Pedersen.

He has later made a career as a popular

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 conveyor of natural science

Natural science

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s. He co-founded the science television program Schrödingers katt (named after Schrödinger's cat

Schrödinger's cat

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) on the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. He has also been a science journalist and periodicalist. For this he was awarded the Fritt Ord Honorary Award

Fritt Ord Award

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in 2010.