Alfred Gabriel Nathorst
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Alfred Gabriel Nathorst (1850 – 1921) was a Swedish Arctic explorer and geologist. Alfred was born in Nyköping on the 7th of November and died in Stockholm 1921.
Nathorst was awarded, in a royal decree of the 5th of December 1884, the title of professor. He was appointed by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences as curator of the new “Department of Archegoniates and Fossil Plants" at the same time.
Nathorst lead an expedition in 1898 to Björnön, Svalbard and Kung Karls Land. The following year (1899) Nathorst lead an expedition to Greenland. This second expedition had as a secondary purpose to try to locate the Andreé Arctic balloon expedition of 1897. The Andreé expedition was not found and the scientific contribution of this second expedition was mainly geographical. The two expeditions are described in two volumes "Två somrar i Norra Ishavet".
The scientific contributions of Nathorst was mainly geological and palaebotanical.
