Georg Ossian Sars
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Georg Ossian Sars HFRSE was a Norwegian marine and freshwater biologist. He was a professor of zoology at the University of Oslo from 1874 to 1918. He was a pioneer of Norwegian fisheries research and
Georg Ossian Sars, c. 1865
Drawing made by Sars in his book Contributions to the Knowledge of the Fresh-Water Entomostraca of New Zealand. (1894)
Eva Nansen
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Eva Helene Nansen was a celebrated Norwegian mezzo-soprano singer. She was also a pioneer of women's skiing.
Georg Ossian Sars
…Municipality), the son of Pastor Michael Sars and Maren Sars; the historian Ernst Sars was his elder brother, and the singer and women's skiing pioneer Eva Nansen was his younger sister. He grew up in Manger Municipality in Hordaland, where his father was the local priest. He studied from 1852 to 1854 at Bergen…
Eva Nansen (right) and Fridtjof Nansen in fall 1889
Eva Nansen in 1897
Eva Nansen, 1889