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Science, Invention, Exploration 385
most toward the benefit of mankind along the lines of
Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature, and Peace.
The prizes in Physics and Chemistry are awarded by
the Swedish Academy of Science;
in Medicine by the
Stockholm Faculty of Medicine, in Literature by the
Swedish Academy, in Peace by a committee of five
elected by the Norwegian Storthing. The Fund is man-
aged by a Board of Directors, whose chairman is ap-
pointed by the Swedish government. The office of the
Board and residence of members is Stockholm.
Adolf Erik Nordenskiold. The Viking disposition,
love of adventure, is deeply rooted in the Swedish mind.
But for this, so
small a people as
the Swedish nation
could never have
played the role in
history which they
have done. The po-
lar regions, the
northern waters,
have especially at-
tracted them. The
most noted of Swed-
ish explorers dur-
ing the last century
was Nordenskiold.
He was born in
Helsingfors in 1832
and became profes-
fessor of Mineral-
ogy in Stockholm in Adolf Erik Nordenskiold.
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