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Fridtjof Nansen
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Let me tell you the secret of such so-called successes as there have been in my life, and here I believe I give you really good advice.
— Rectorial address delivered at St. Andrews University, 3 November 1926. Translated in
Fridtjof Nansen
Norwegian polar explorer and diplomat; Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1861-1930)
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Updated 2026-06-21
He skied across Greenland's interior when it was still blank on the map, pushed farther north than anyone before him, then traded polar fame for the harder work: negotiating Norway's independence and inventing the passport for people with no country left to claim them.
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Nansen studied zoology at the Royal Frederick University in Christiania and earned a doctorate researching the nervous systems of marine creatures — work that helped establish neuron doctrine years before Santiago Ramón y Cajal won the 1906 Nobel Prize in Medicine for similar research. In 1888 he led the first crossing of Greenland's interior on skis, then reached 86°14′ north during his Fram expedition of 1893–1896, a record latitude that made him an international figure. After 1896 he turned to oceanography, making scientific cruises in the North Atlantic and advancing modern equipment. In 1…
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The history of the human race is a continual struggle from darkness towards light.
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It is better to go skiing and think of God, than to go to church and think of sport.
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The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.
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