Fridtjof Nansen won international fame after reaching a record northern latitude of 86 ° 14 ′ during his Nansen's Fram expedition | North Pole expedition of 1893 – 96.

After a short period of internment on the Lofoten Islands, Schwitters fled to Scotland with his son on the icebreaker Fridtjof Nansen between 8 and 18 June 1940.

A sample Fridtjof Nansen | Nansen passport

Led by Fridtjof Nansen, the Commission for Refugees was established on 27 June 1921 to look after the interests of refugees, including overseeing their repatriation and, when necessary, resettlement.

In April 1895 the Norwegian explorers Fridtjof Nansen and Hjalmar Johansen struck out for the Pole on skis after leaving Nansen's icebound ship Fram.

* 1861 – Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer, Nobel laureate ( d. 1930 )

The explorer Fridtjof Nansen explains this apparent fantasy of Pytheas as a mistake of Timaeus.

Historian Beau Riffenburgh states that the promise to Scott " should never ethically have been demanded ", and compares Scott's intransigence on this matter unfavourably with the generous attitudes of the Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen, who gave freely of his advice and expertise to all, whether they were potential rivals or not.

Using the ship Fram (" Forward "), earlier used by Fridtjof Nansen, he left Norway for the south, leaving Oslo on 3 June 1910.

Fridtjof Nansen was Professor of Zoology and Rector-elect, and was also known as an explorer, humanitarian and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

Prior to the establishment of UNHCR, Fridtjof Nansen was the League of Nations High Commissioner of the Nansen International Office for Refugees, from 1922.

* December 10 – Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( d. 1930 )

* Peace – Fridtjof Nansen

* May 13 – Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( b. 1861 )

Designed in 1921 by Fridtjof Nansen, in 1942 they were honored by governments in 52 countries and were the first refugee travel documents.

* Fridtjof Nansen Memorial Lecture 2001

Undeterred, Fridtjof Nansen worked with both Greece and Turkey to gain their acceptance of the proposed population exchange.

In 1893, Fridtjof Nansen allowed his ship " Fram " to be frozen in the Arctic ice.

The first international co-ordination on refugee affairs came with the League of Nations ' appointment of Fridtjof Nansen to the newly created post of High Commissioner for Refugees.

Fridtjof Nansen is known as a friend of the Royal Family.

To provide support to the people, Fridtjof Nansen ( the famous polar explorer ), Martin Andersen Nexø ( a Danish writer ), the Swedish Red Cross Mission, and officers of the American Relief Administration from the United States came to Samara.

The Fridtjof Nansen

On the other hand, Michael K. Richardson, Professor of Evolutionary Developmental Zoology, Leiden University, while recognizing that some criticisms of the drawings are legitimate ( indeed, it was he and his co-workers who began the modern criticisms in 1998 ), has supported the drawings as teaching aids, and has said that " on a fundamental level, Haeckel was correct "

Joaquim Monteiro Caminhoá, Professor of Botany and Zoology of the Faculty of Medicine of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, also recognised the antibiotic activity of Penicillium and other fungi in 1877.

In 1973, Harvard promoted him to Professor of Geology and Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology at the institution's Museum of Comparative Zoology and very often described himself as a taxonomist.

In 1982, Harvard awarded him with the title of Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology.

Weismann became the Director of the Zoological Institute and the first Professor of Zoology at Freiburg.

In 1925 Huxley moved to King's College London as Professor of Zoology, but in 1927, to the amazement of his colleagues, he resigned his chair to work full time with H. G.

* Collaborated with Walter Frank Raphael Weldon, Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, in biometry and evolutionary theory, 1891 – 1906

Udvardy arrived at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1952 and was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Zoology in 1953, where he lectured in comparative anatomy and ornithology until 1966.

His first job after college was from 1948-1949 as Instructor in Zoology and Curator of Birds, University of Kansas, followed from 1949-1953 as Assistant Professor of Zoology, San Jose State College, California.

From 1953-1965 he was Associate Professor then Professor of Zoology and director of the ornithological laboratory at Cornell.

The college was based at Bredon House, a property built in the early twentieth-century by John Stanley Gardiner, who was a Professor of Zoology at the university from 1909-1937.

Spemann was appointed Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy at Rostock in 1908 and, in 1914, Associate Director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Biology at Dahlem, Berlin.

From 1919 Spemann was Professor of Zoology at the University of Freiburg-im-Breisgau, where he continued his line of enquiry until in 1937 he was relieved of his post to be replaced by one of his first students, Otto Mangold.

In 1866 he became the first Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy at Cambridge, a position which he retained until his death.

Clack is curator at the Museum of Zoology and Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology at Cambridge University, where she has devoted her career to studying the early development of tetrapods, the " four-legged " animals said to have evolved from Devonian lobe-finned fishes and colonized the freshwater swamps of the Carboniferous period.

He taught in Cape Town, but in 1884 joined the staff of the then University College, Bristol as Professor of Geology and Zoology, and carried out some research of local interest in those fields.

Upon returning to Philadelphia in 1864 the Cope family made every effort to secure Edward a teaching post as the Professor of Zoology at Haverford College, a small Quaker school where the family had philanthropic ties.

Appointed the Professor of Botany and Zoology, Gray was dispatched to Europe by the Regents of the University for the purpose purchasing a suitable array of books to form the University's Library.

In 1982 he moved to the University of Florida, Gainesville, where he became Director of the Center for Gerontological Studies and Professor of Zoology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor of Microbiology and Immunology in the College of Medicine.

He was Professor of Zoology at Columbia University, and Curator of the Department of Geology and Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History from 1945 to 1959.