{"id":1761,"date":"2017-10-10T09:09:01","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T03:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rtiwala.com\/?p=1761"},"modified":"2025-03-25T17:36:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T12:06:59","slug":"fridtjof-nansen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rtiwala.com\/content\/fridtjof-nansen\/","title":{"rendered":"Who was Fridtjof Nansen? Why Google Doodle on his 156th Birth Anniversary?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who was Fridtjof Nansen?<\/h2>\n

RTIwala Team going to Explain<\/a> who was Fridtjof Nansen? Fridtjof Nansen was a\u00a0Norwegian explorer, oceanographer, statesman, humanitarian and most importantly a Nobel Laureate<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Why Google Doodle for Fridtjof Nansen?<\/h2>\n
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Fridtjof Nansen at age four.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Well, we all know Google dedicate a Doodle<\/a> on any prominent personality’s Birth or Death Anniversary! And, on today’s date 156 years or 1872 Months ago Fridtjof Nansen was born<\/em><\/strong> in Nansen family of Denish Origin!<\/p>\n

Just at the age of 15, in the year 1882, Fridtjof Nansen took a five-month-long Voyage to study the Artic’s Zoology.<\/p>\n

He carried out many such voyages and published a few research papers which are considered as classics and referred by many academicians.<\/p>\n

On his return from the\u00a0Fram\u00a0expedition in 1896, a professorship in zoology was established for Nansen at the University of Kristiania<\/a>, but his interests shifted from zoology to physical\u00a0oceanography, and in 1908 his status was changed to professor of\u00a0oceanography.<\/p>\n

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Top 5 Facts about Fridtjof Nansen<\/h3>\n

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  1. For Fridtjof Nansen’s relief work after\u00a0World War I, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace (1922).<\/li>\n
  2. As a young man, Fridtjof Nansen was a great outdoor athlete, an accomplished skater and skier, and a keen hunter and fisherman. In 1882, when he joined the sealing ship\u00a0Viking\u00a0for a voyage to the\u00a0Greenland\u00a0waters.<\/li>\n
  3. In 1882 he was appointed a curator of zoology at the Bergen Museum. He wrote papers on zoological and histological subjects, illustrated by excellent drawings.<\/li>\n
  4. At the first assembly of the\u00a0League of Nations\u00a0in 1920, the Norwegian delegation was headed by Nansen, who was to remain one of the outstanding members of the assembly until his death.<\/li>\n
  5. In 1922 Nansen was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace; he used the prize money for the furtherance of international relief work. The\u00a0Nansen International Office for Refugees\u00a0won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1938.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Did you know Nansen’s Passport?\u00a0On July 5, 1922, on Fridtjof Nansen\u2019s\u00a0initiative, an international agreement was signed in Geneva introducing the identification card for displaced persons known as the\u00a0\u201cNansen passport<\/a>.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    In 1931 the\u00a0Nansen International Office for Refugees\u00a0was created in Geneva (after Nansen\u2019s death); it cared mainly for anticommunist (\u201cWhite\u201d) Russians, for Armenians from Turkey, and, later, for Jews from Nazi Germany.<\/p>\n

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