Ivar Samset (4 December 1918 – 29 June 2015) was a Norwegian forester.
He was born in Skien. He graduated from the Norwegian College of Agriculture in 1944, and was a professor at the Norwegian College of Agriculture and research director at the Norwegian Forest Research Institute from 1956 to 1988. In 1977 he received an honorary degree from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. He was a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. In 2004 he published the autobiography Storm gjennom skogene.
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1918 births
2015 deaths
People from Skien
Norwegian foresters
Norwegian College of Agriculture alumni
Academic staff of the Norwegian College of Agriculture
Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
Norwegian autobiographers
