Harald Ulrik Sverdrup
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Director, Norwegian Polar Research Institute, Oslo, 1948β57. Director, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, at La Jolla, 1936β48. Author of Oceanography for Meteorologists and others.
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Fridtjof Nansen was a Norwegian explorer, oceanographer, statesman, and humanitarian who led a number of expeditions to the Arctic (1888, 1893, 1895β96) and oceanographic expeditions in the North Atlantic (1900, 1910β14). For his relief work after World War I he was awarded the Nobel Prize forβ¦
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