Short biography Haugeland, Trygve 1914 – 1998 Farmer and politician Center party Trygve Haugeland graduated from the Agricultural College of Norway in 1937. From 1946 up to 1953 he was headmaster of Lyngdal jordbruksskole, an agricultural school. In 1963-1966 Haugeland was hired by the Norwegian Lutheran Mission Society to establish an agricultural school in Ethiopia.…

Short biography Natvig-Pedersen, Gustav 1893 – 1965 Teacher and politician Labour Gustav Natvig-Pedersen took his M.A. (Cand. Philol.) in 1919. He later studied at the London School of Economics (1928) and Brookwood Labor College, New York (1932). From 1919 he held positions as teacher and principal at Stavanger Katedralskole and from 1946 until 1962 he…

Short biography Løvland, Jørgen Gunnarsson 1848 – 1922 Customs officer, teacher, newspaper editor and politician Liberal Jørgen Løvland was Norwegian representative at the conference in Karlstad in 1905, which led to the dissolution of the Swedish-Norwegian union. He was Norway’s first Foreign Minister in 1905-1908 and Prime Minister in 1907-1908. Løvland was member of the…

by 1985 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Introduction The role of science and technology in future design will be discussed from the perspective of someone who has lived all his life in the United States and whose scientific experience has spanned the years since the late 1930s. It is likely that the reader will find in…

Short biography Knudsen, Christian Holterman 1845 – 1929 Typographer, pioneer of the Norwegian labour movement Labour Christian Holterman Knudsen became chairman of the ‘Typographers’ Union in 1876. In 1883 he became chairman of Fagforeningernes Centralkomite (the Central Committee of Trade Unions). From the early 1880s Knudsen was a leading proponent of socialism in Norway. He…

Short biography Aarvik, Egil 1912 – 1990 Preacher, politician and newspaper editor Christian people’s party Aarvik was Secretary at the Norwegian Home Mission Society 1934-1937, and worked for the Society’s local branch in the City of Stavanger in 1940-1946. He was a journalist in Dagsavisa, a daily in the City of Trondheim in 1947-1950, and…

Short biography Hambro, Carl Joachim 1885 – 1964 Politician, Journalist and Writer Conservative C. J. Hambro received his M.A. in 1907. He worked as a journalist in the conservative newspaper Morgenbladet from 1905 and was the newspaper’s editor in 1913-1920. He was associated with the newspaper as a literary critic until 1945. Hambro was elected…

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  Year  Laureate  Field  Prize Citation 1969 Ragnar Frisch Oslo University Jan Tinbergen The Netherland School of Economics Econometrics For having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes 1970 Paul A. Samuelson Massachusetts Institute of Technology Partial and General Equilibrium Theory For the scientific work through which he has developed static…

Short biography Anderson, Gidske 1921 – 1992 Writer and journalist Labour Gidske Anderson worked in Paris as correspondent for NRK (the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation) and Arbeiderbladet (the organ of the Labour Party) 1954-1964. In 1964-1967 she was a free-lance journalist and writer in the USA. From 1967 until 1972 Anderson was editor of the foreign…