Einar Sverdrup (18 December 1895 – 13 May 1942) was a Norwegian mining engineer and businessman. He was the CEO of the Store Norske Spitsbergen Kulkompani, operating at Svalbard.
Sverdrup rozpracoval teorii všeobecné cirkulace oceánů předpokládající dynamickou rovnováhu mezi účinky větru na vodní masy a jejich pohybem, ty vyjádřil vztahem vorticity tečného napětí větru a meridionální složky gradientu Coriolisova…
Jakob Liv Rosted Sverdrup (27 March 1845 – 11 June 1899) was a Norwegian bishop and politician. Born into a prominent local family and well-educated, Jakob followed in the footsteps of his father Harald Ulrik Sverdrup and his uncle Johan…
Harald Ulrik Sverdrup (29 May 1923 – 26 June 1992) was a Norwegian poet and children's writer. He received several literary prizes, including the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature, the Mads Wiel Nygaards Endowment, the Dobloug Prize and…
Otto Sverdrup is one of our country's foremost polar explorers, equal to Fridtjof Nansen and Roald Amundsen. It is a shame to which extent his great exploits have been overlooked.