Fridtjof Nansen

Fridtjof Nansen

male, deceased (1930)
Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen (born October 10, 1861 in Store Frøen, near Christiania - died May 13, 1930 in Lysaker, outside Oslo) was a N...
Thomas Hylland Eriksen

Thomas Hylland Eriksen

male, 47 years old
Thomas Hylland Eriksen (born 1962) is professor of social anthropology at the University of Oslo. He has done field work in Trinidad and Mauritius....
Niels Henrik Abel

Niels Henrik Abel

male, deceased (1829)
Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician, was born in Nedstrand, near Finnøy where his father acted as rector. In 1815 he entered the cathedral s...
Jon Bing

Jon Bing

male, 65 years old
Jon Bing from Tønsberg, Norway, is a Norwegian writer and law professor at the Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law (NRCCL), and The J...
Ole-Johan Dahl

Ole-Johan Dahl

male, deceased (2002)
Ole-Johan Dahl was a Norwegian computer scientist and is considered to be one of the fathers of Simula and object-oriented programming along with...
Rolf Furuli

Rolf Furuli

male
Rolf Johan Furuli works as a lecturer in Semitic languages at the University of Oslo. He is currently involved in translation of non-Christian...
Vilhelm Bjerknes

Vilhelm Bjerknes

male, deceased (1951)
Vilhelm Friman Koren Bjerknes (March 14, 1862 - April 9, 1951) was a Norwegian physicist and meteorologist who did much to found the modern...
Sophus Lie

Sophus Lie

male, deceased (1899)
Marius Sophus Lie (December 17, 1842 - February 18, 1899) was a Norwegian-born mathematician. He largely created the theory of continuous symmetry,...

Birger Moeller-Pedersen

male
Birger Moeller-Pedersen is the co-developer of the general object-oriented programming language BETA, together with Kristen Nygaard, Bent Bruun...