Fridtjof Nansen - Nobel Peace Prize — 1922
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Fridtjof Nansen

Prize
Nobel Peace Prize — 1922
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
Citizenship
NorwayNorway
Languages
Norwegian
date of birth
10/10/1861
place of birth
Vestre Aker
date of death
5/13/1930
place of death
Polhøgda
Lived
68 years
occupation
  • speed skater
  • professor
  • polar explorer
  • diplomat
  • photographer
  • zoologist
  • writer
  • politician
  • scientific collector
field of work
  • oceanography
educated at
  • University of Oslo
employer
  • University Museum of Bergen
  • University of Oslo
position held
  • ambassador of Norway to the United Kingdom
    • start time: 1906
    • end time: 1908
  • honorary presidency
  • United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
    • start time: 1922
    • end time: 1927
member of
  • Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters
  • Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
  • Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
  • Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
    • start time: 9/25/1900
  • Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1897
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
  • Paneuropean Union
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
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