Guro Valen [SEP] occupation
Guro Valen
Guro Valen (20 March 1960 – 26 September 2014) was a Norwegian professor of medicine.
She was a daughter of political scientist Henry Valen. She worked at the University of Tromsø, Karolinska Institutet and the University of Oslo, and was a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. She died from cancer in September 2014.
Neri Valen
Neri Valen (26 September 1893 – 4 January 1954) was a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party.
He was born in Bø.
He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Telemark in 1931, and was re-elected on four occasions. Shortly into his fifth term, he died and was replaced by Ketil Skogen.
Valen became a member of Bø municipality in 1919, and became mayor in 1922. From 1925 to 1931 he served as deputy mayor.
During the occupation of Norway