Seljelid has been credited for instituting the idea that Norway should cultivate young elite researchers to a larger degree. His inspiration came from the strenuous Norwegian efforts to cultivate young elite sportspeople.[1][3][4]
He was a long-term consultant for Biotec Pharmacon, later renamed Arctic Zymes Technologies.[5] He was also a newspaper columnist in Nordlys.[1] After holding a series of causeries in NRK radio in 1983–84, they were issued in the book Men noen stener kan fly and published by Universitetsforlaget.[6]
Following his retirement in 2004,[1] he mainly resided at Ursvik, Nesodden. He died at the age of 89 and was buried at Nesodden.[7]
References
^ abcdHolte, Magnus Aamo (28 June 2023). "Rolf Seljelid er død". Nordlys (in Norwegian). p. 14.