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noun - Norwegian explorer of the Arctic and director of the League of Nations relief program for refugees of World War I (1861-1930)
NANSEN - Fridtjof Nansen (Norwegian: [²fitjf nnsn]; 10 October 1861 13 May 1930) was a Norwegian explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian, and Nobel Peac...
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Fridtjof Nansen (Norwegian: [²fitjf nnsn]; 10 October 1861 13 May 1930) was a Norwegian explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. In his youth he was a champion skier and ice skater. He led the team that made the first crossing of the Greenland interior in 1888, traversing the island on cross-country skis. He won international fame after reaching a record northern latitude of 86°14 during his North Pole expedition of 189396. 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 (renamed Oslo in 1925), and later worked as a curator at the University Museum of Bergen where his research on the central nervous system of lower marine creatures earned him a doctorate and helped establish neuron doctrine. Later, famed neuroscient |