Tuesday, October 10, 2006

 

This Day in History

On this day in 1861, Norwegian explorer, oceanographer, statesman, and humanitarian with the unpronounceable (first) name, Fridtjof Nansen, is born. He led a number of expeditions to the Arctic (1888, 1893, 1895-96) and oceanographic expeditions in the North Atlantic (1900, 1910-14). Nansen wrote The Oceanography of the North Polar Basin (1902). For his relief work after World War I, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1922.

An obscure Scandinavian earning the Swedish Peace Prize--what are the odds? Did they win for bad mouthing America back then?

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