Ivar Giaever He grew up in Toten where his father, John A. Giaever, was a pharmacist. He attended elementary school in Toten but received his secondary education in the city of Hamar. Next he worked one year at the Raufoss Munition Factories before entering the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1948. He graduated in 1952 with a degree in mechanical engineering[...]

Edvard Munch (1863-1944) Edvard Munch was born on December 12th, 1863, Norway, the son of Christian Munch, a military doctor. He spent most of his childhood living in Kristiania, which is now better known as Oslo, the Norwegian capital.[...]

Ragnar Frisch Ragnar Frisch (Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch) was born on Sunday, March 03, 1895 in Oslo and he was a famous economist from Norway. He was appointed Professor at the University of Oslo in 1931 and founded in 1932 the Institute of Economics at the University of Oslo, which he directed until retirement in 1965. [...]

Sigrid Undset Sigrid Undset (1882-1949) is one of the three Norwegian authors (and so far the most recent one) to have received the Nobel Prize for Literature. Undset received the Prize in 1928, for her powerful description of life during the Middle Ages in Scandinavia, as the Nobel Literary Committee in Sweden put it at the time.[...]

Henrik Ibsen Henrik Ibsen (Henrik Johan Ibsen) was born on Thursday, March 20, 1828 in Skien. The Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen made a tremendous impact on the course of Western drama. The best of his plays portray the real-life problems of individuals, with a skillful use of dialogue (conversation between individuals in a play) and symbols.[...]