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Fridtjof Nansen
Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen was a Norwegian polymath and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He gained prominence at various points in his life as an explorer, a scientist, a diplomat, a humanitarian, and the co-founder of the Fatherland League.
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politics · Norwegian polar explorer (1861–1930) · zoologist · polar explorer · diplomat · professor · politician · photographer · speed skater · writer · scientific collector · also Fridtjof Nansen, Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen, Nansen
Born 10 October 1861 · Died 13 May 1930 · Q72292
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2026· 2 entries
PortalPortuario: Antarctica – Paradise Bay – MS Fridtjof Nansen hx expeditions
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2024· 1 entry
Travel Agent: Photo Tour: HX's Fridtjof Nansen, a Focus on Science and Adventure
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2022· 1 entry
Shephard Media: Navantia to undertake Fridtjof Nansen-class configuration audit
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2021· 2 entries
TravelPulse: Hurtigruten Expeditions Reveals Godmothers for MS Fridtjof Nansen
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Travel Weekly: Hurtigruten names two godmothers for Fridtjof Nansen
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2018· 1 entry
Travel Weekly: Hurtigruten expedition ship Fridtjof Nansen won't be delivered in 2019
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2017· 4 entries
The Financial Express: Who was Fridtjof Nansen? Google Doodle celebrates 156th birth anniversary of legendary Norwegian explorer
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The Mirror: Who was Fridtjof Nansen? Google Doodle celebrates 156th birthday of legendary Norwegian adventurer
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Yahoo: Google Doodle Celebrates Legendary Adventurer Fridtjof Nansen's 156th Birthday
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NDTV: Fridtjof Nansen Birthday: Google Celebrates Explorer, Humanitarian With A Doodle
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2014· 1 entry
Published “<i>#</i>Funeral and Instagram: death, social media, and platform vernacular” in Information, Communication & Society — cited 495 times.
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2004· 1 entry
With HNoMS Fridtjof Nansen as its lead ship
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1954· 1 entry
The League's successor body, the United Nations, established the Nansen Medal, later named the Nansen Refugee Award, given annually by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to an individual, group or organisa
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1938· 1 entry
The year in which it was superseded by a wider-ranging body, the Nansen Office was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
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1930· 5 entries
Died 1930-05-13.
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“It is better to go skiing and think of God, than to go to church and think of sport.”
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“The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.”
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“Original: «The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.”
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After which the League established the Nansen International Office for Refugees to ensure that his work continued
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1929· 1 entry
Went on his final tour for the League on the ship Stella Polaris, holding speeches from Bergen to Hammerfest
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1926· 3 entries
Gaining some momentum that proposed for Nansen to head a centre-right national unity government on a balanced budget program, an idea he did not reject
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Nansen was elected Rector of the University of St Andrews in Scotland, the first foreigner to hold this largely honorary position
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“He found an unknown grave under the clear sky of the icy world, with the whirring of the wings of eternity through space.”
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1925· 1 entry
Awarded Knight Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of Saint Olav (1925).
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1924· 1 entry
Was persuaded by the long-retired former Prime Minister Christian Michelsen to take part in a new anti-communist political grouping, the Fatherland League
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1922· 5 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Peace — for his leading role in the repatriation of prisoners of war, in international relief work and as the League of Nations' High Commissioner for refugees.
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Awarded Nobel Peace Prize for Nansen passport (1922).
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Was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on behalf of the displaced victims of World War I and related conflicts
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Career landmark: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (1922–1927).
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Was able to state that 427,886 prisoners had been repatriated to around 30 different countries
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1921· 1 entry
As the League's High Commissioner for Refugees
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1920· 1 entry
And he became one of its three delegates to the League's General Assembly
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1914· 1 entry
Norway declared its neutrality, alongside Sweden and Denmark
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1911· 1 entry
As Nord i Tåkeheimen ("In Northern Mists")
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1910· 1 entry
Aboard the Norwegian naval vessel Fridtjof, he carried out researches in the northern Atlantic, and in 1912 he took his own yacht, Veslemøy, to Bear Island and Spitsbergen
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1909· 1 entry
Nansen combined with Bjørn Helland-Hansen to publish an academic paper, The Norwegian Sea: its Physical Oceanography, based on the Michael Sars voyage of 1900
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1906· 1 entry
Career landmark: ambassador of Norway to the United Kingdom (1906–1908).
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1905· 2 entries
Had supplied the Swedish physicist Walfrid Ekman with the data which established the principle in oceanography known as the Ekman spiral
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Nansen spoke out for ending Norway's union with Sweden, and was instrumental in persuading Prince Carl of Denmark to accept the throne of the newly independent Norway
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1900· 1 entry
Nansen became director of the Christiania-based International Laboratory for North Sea Research, and helped found the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
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1897· 6 entries
Awarded Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1897).
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Awarded Grande Médaille d'Or des Explorations (1897).
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Won Alexander von Humboldt Medal (1897).
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Won Cullum Geographical Medal (1897).
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Accepted a professorship in zoology at the Royal Frederick University, which gave him a base from which he could tackle the major task of editing the reports of the scientific results of the Fram expedition
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Followed by a daughter, Irmelin, in 1900 and a second son Odd in 1901
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1896· 1 entry
Awarded Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Olav (1896).
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1891· 3 entries
Won Constantin Medal (1891).
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Won Patron’s Medal (1891).
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From the profits of his Greenland expedition book, was now too small
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1889· 4 entries
Awarded Knight of the Order of St. Olav (1889).
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Won Carl-Ritter-Medal (1889).
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Won Vega Medal (1889).
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“s skiing and the daughter of Michael Sars, a theologian and zoology professor who had died when Eva was 11 years old. The couple had met some years previously, at the skiing resort of Frognerseteren, where Nansen recalled seeing”
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1888· 1 entry
Traversing the island on cross-country skis
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1887· 1 entry
After the submission of his doctoral thesis, he finally began organising this project
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1882· 1 entry
Nansen took "the first fatal step that led me astray from the quiet life of science
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1880· 1 entry
Nansen passed his university entrance examination, the examen artium
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1861· 2 entries
Born 1861-10-10.
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The couple had three children; the first died in infancy, the second, born 10 October 1861, was Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen.
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1821· 2 entries
After suffering a paralytic stroke in 1821 Hans Leierdahl Nansen died, leaving a four-year-old son, Baldur Fridtjof Nansen, the explorer's father.
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Hans Leierdahl Nansen died, leaving a four-year-old son, Baldur Fridtjof Nansen, the explorer's father
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1814· 2 entries
Had been under considerable strain through the 1890s, the chief issue in question being Norway's rights to its own consular service
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Entered national political life as the representative for Stavanger in the first Storting, and became a strong advocate of union with Sweden
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