List of Norwegian inventors and discoverers
The list of Norwegian inventors and discoverers is a list of inventors and discoverers from Norway in alphabetical order by family name.
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A.
- Niels Henrik Abel : mathematician, various mathematical structures
- Roald Amundsen : polar explorer, first crossed the Northwest Passage between 1903 and 1906 ; was the first to reach the geographic South Pole
B.
- Kristian Birkeland : Physicist, Birkeland-Eyde process for the production of artificial saltpeter and fertilizer salt (together with Sam Eyde )
- Vilhelm Bjerknes : Meteorologist: Weather forecast pioneer
- Thor Bjørklund : inventor of the cheese slicer
- Fredrik Rosing Bull : involved in the development of punched card machines, for which he invented a punch , among other things
E.
- Ægidius Elling : Developer of an early working prototype of a gas turbine
- Leif Eriksson , seafarer, around 1000 first discovery of America (" Vinland ")
- Sam Eyde : Engineer, Birkeland-Eyde process for the manufacture of artificial nitric and fertilizer salt. (in cooperation with Kristian Birkeland )
F.
- Svend Foyn : whaler, grenade harpoon / harpoon cannon
G
- Ivar Giaever , physicist (Nobel Prize) - experimental discoveries regarding the tunnel phenomenon in semiconductors and superconductors
H
- Gerhard Armauer Hansen : Doctor, discoverer of the leprosy pathogen , Mycobacterium leprae
- Odd Hassel : Chemist (Nobel Prize) - for work in the development of the concept of conformation and its application in chemistry
- Thor Heyerdahl : sailed in 1947 with the Kon-Tiki raft from South America to Tahiti and in 1970 with the papyrus boat Ra II from Morocco to Barbados; numerous other expeditions with discoveries
M.
- May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser , Nobel Prize winners, discoverers of the cells in the brain that make spatial orientation possible.
N
- Fridtjof Nansen : polar explorer, was the first to cross the Greenland ice sheet ; Nobel Peace Prize
O
- Peter Opsvik : Trip-Trap chair (Norwegian company Stokke AS )
P
- Tore Planke and Petter Planke : inventors of the deposit machine (Norwegian company Tomra AS 1979)
R.
- Erik the Red , settled Greenland in 985
- Erik Rotheim , inventor of the spray can (Norwegian company Alf Bjercke)
S.
- Otto Sverdrup : polar explorer, discovered the Sverdrup Islands, later named after him, on the second Fram expedition 1898–1902
V
Johan Vaaler , 1887.
- Johan Vaaler , inventor of a forerunner of the modern paper clip
W.
- Bror With : Rottefella ski bindings