Definition of Fridtjof Nansen

1. Noun. Norwegian explorer of the Arctic and director of the League of Nations relief program for refugees of World War I (1861-1930).

Exact synonyms: Nansen
Generic synonyms: Adventurer, Explorer, National Leader, Solon, Statesman

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fridtjof Nansen

Frey's syndrome
Frey effect
Freya
Freyja
Freyr
Fri
Fribourg
Frida
Friday
Friday the thirteenth
Fridays
Fridenberg's stigometric card test
Friderichsen-Waterhouse syndrome
Fridrich method
Fridtjof Nansen (current term)
Frieda
Friedan
Friedel-Crafts reaction
Friedlander's bacillus
Friedlander's bacillus pneumonia
Friedlander's pneumonia
Friedlander's stain
Friedman
Friedman curve
Friedman test
Friedman unit
Friedman units
Friedreich's ataxia
Friedreich's phenomenon

Literary usage of Fridtjof Nansen

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1889)
"By Dr. Fridtjof Nansen. (Read at the Evening Meeting, June 21th, 1889.) Map, p. 524. SINCE Greenland was discovered about nine hundred years ago, ..."

2. Russian Refugees in France and the United States Between the World Wars by James E. Hassell (1991)
"The League of Nations and Fridtjof Nansen As hundreds of thousands fled the Russian revolution and the civil war, most without means or destination, ..."

3. Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum ...by George Knottesford Fortescue by George Knottesford Fortescue (1902)
"BAIN (JA) Life and Explorations of Fridtjof Nansen, pp. 449. land. ... NANSEN (F.) Fridtjof Nansen. An Album commemorative of the return of the " Fram. ..."

4. The World's Food by Clyde Lyndon King (1917)
"THE FOOD SITUATION OF NORWAY BY Fridtjof Nansen, D.Sc., DCL, Minister Plenipotentiary of Norway on Special Mission. In spite of its great extension, ..."

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