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…

Short biography Konow, Wollert 1845 – 1924 Teacher, farmer and politician Liberal As a young man, Wollert Konow studied law but he never got a degree. From 1868 he ran a school in the countryside in western Norway. In 1878 he took over his father’s farm outside Bergen, Norway’s second largest city. Soon after, he…

Short biography Germeten, Else 1918 – 1992 Women’s group organizer and film censor Labour As a young woman, Else Germeten studied English language and literature (1941). Later she went to the USA where she passed an exam in Psychology in 1953. She was Chairman of Norges Husmorforbund (Norwegian Housewives’ Association) in 1959-1969. In the 1970s,…

A 28 minutes long slide shows the history of Karolinska Institutet and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. It is divided into four parts: The 19th century history of Karolinska Institute; the development of the Karolinska Institute during the 1900’s; The Nobel Laureates at the Karolinska Institute; Selecting the Nobel Laureates and overview of…

Short biography Getz, Bernhard 1850 – 1901 Public prosecutor and politician Conservative Bernhard Getz became professor of criminal law at the University of Kristiania (Oslo) in 1876. He was engaged in the studies and teaching of constitutional and international law. One of the leading Norwegian jurists, he was appointed Norway’s first public prosecutor in 1889.…

Short biography Lyng, John Daniel Fürstenberg 1905 – 1978 Jurist and politician Conservative John Daniel Fürstenberg Lyng got his law degree in 1927. In the 1930s he was engaged in local politics in Trondheim. During the German occupation of Norway in 1940-1945, he took refuge in Sweden and after the war became public prosecutor in…

Short biography Lindebrække, Sjur 1909 – 1998 Bank manager and politician Conservative Sjur Lindebrække became Doctor of Law in 1948. He was Assistant Manager of Bergen Privatbank in 1940-1945 and Bank Manager in 1945. He was Managing Director later in 1958-1968 and was active chairman of the Board in 1968-1976. He was Chairman of the…

by Sven Kullander Why accelerators Particle accelerators are devices producing beams of energetic ions and electrons which are employed for many different purposes, one being ultra-precision microscopy. As is well known objects with dimensions down to the size of a living cell are investigated by optical microscopes and those down to atomic dimensions by electron…

By Lars Brink Forces One of the basic features in physics is the occurrence of forces that keep matter together. There are for example, the forces that keep the cells together to build up the human body, and there is the gravitational force that keeps us on the ground and the moon in orbit around…