Fridtjof Nansen
Scientist, Author
1861 – 1930
Who was Fridtjof Nansen?
Fridtjof Nansen was a Norwegian explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. In his youth a champion skier and ice skater, he led the team that made the first crossing of the Greenland interior in 1888, and won international fame after reaching a record northern latitude of 86°14′ during his North Pole expedition of 1893–96. Although he retired from exploration after his return to Norway, his techniques of polar travel and his innovations in equipment and clothing influenced a generation of subsequent Arctic and Antarctic expeditions.
Nansen studied zoology at the Royal Frederick University in Christiania, and later worked as a curator at the Bergen Museum where his research on the central nervous system of lower marine creatures earned him a doctorate and helped establish modern theories of neurology. After 1896 his main scientific interest switched to oceanography; in the course of his research he made many scientific cruises, mainly in the North Atlantic, and contributed to the development of modern oceanographic equipment.
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- Born
- Oct 10, 1861
Oslo - Parents
- Spouses
- Eva Nansen
(1889/09/06 - 1907/12/09) - Sigrun Munthe
(1909/01/17 - )
- Eva Nansen
- Children
- Religion
- Agnostic atheism
- Ethnicity
- Norwegians
- Nationality
- Norway
- Profession
- Education
- University of Oslo
Zoology
(1881 - )
- University of Oslo
- Employment
- University of Oslo
- Lived in
- Oslo
- Died
- May 13, 1930
Polhøgda
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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