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]