Alfred Gabriel Nathorst (November 7, 1850 – January 20, 1921) was a Swedish Arctic explorer, geologist and palaeobotanist. Nathorst was born in Väderbrunn outside Nyköping and died in Stockholm. Nathorst’s interest in geology was awoken by Charles Lyell’s ‘’Principles of Geology‘’ and, at the age of 21, Nathorst visited Lyell in England in 1872. Nathorst was employed at the Geological Survey of Sweden 1873-84.

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  • Alfred Gabriel Nathorst (November 7, 1850 – January 20, 1921) was a Swedish Arctic explorer, geologist and palaeobotanist. Nathorst was born in Väderbrunn outside Nyköping and died in Stockholm. Nathorst’s interest in geology was awoken by Charles Lyell’s ‘’Principles of Geology‘’ and, at the age of 21, Nathorst visited Lyell in England in 1872. Nathorst was employed at the Geological Survey of Sweden 1873-84. He was then appointed professor, by royal decree of the 5th of December 1884, and was simultaneously made curator of the new “Department of Archegoniates and Fossil Plants" at the Swedish Museum of Natural History. He remained on the post until his retirement in 1917. Nathorst visited Spitsbergen in 1870 and led an expedition to Bear Island and Svalbard including the isolated Kong Karls Land in 1898. The following year (1899), Nathorst led an expedition to Greenland. This second expedition had as the dual purpose of geographical mapping and of searching for survivors of S. A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897. The Andreé expedition was not found, however. The two expeditions are described in two volumes "Två somrar i Norra Ishavet". Starting with macrofossil deposited in glacial clay found in Scania in 1871, Nathorst investigated postglacial development in flora and vegetation. He also researched on plant remains from older geological eras, such as palaeozoic and mesozoic from the Arctic and tertiary from Japan. These investigations made himan internationally acknowledged authority on palaeobotany. palaebotanical. Nathorst had a scientific dispute with Eugen Warming over the history of the flora of Greenland. Warming adhered to the hypothesis that part of the flora had survived the last glaciation - the nunatak hypothesis, while Nathorst advocated the view that the entire flora had immigrated anew after the glaciation - the tabula rasa hypothesis. Disputes with similar antitheses have later been repeated for other areas by other combatants. He was elected member of a large number of learned societies, including the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1885). A number of plant, animal and fungal species have been named to his honour, e.g. Saxifraga nathorstii Hayek (East Greenland saxifrage) and a suite of fossil plant species, Williamsonia nathorstii Carruthers and Laestadites nathorstii Mesch. (a fossil fungus). Nathorst Land in East Central Greenland is named after him.
  • Alfred Gabriel Nathorst war ein schwedischer Botaniker, Geologe und Polarforscher. Sein offizielles botanisches Autorenkürzel lautet „Nath. “. Nathorsts Interesse für Naturwissenschaften begann in jungen Jahren, wobei er sich erst der Botanik widmete und später der Geologie. Der Kern seines Werkes liegt dabei in der Paläobotanik.
  • Alfred Gabriel Nathorst, född 7 november 1850 på Väderbrunns lantbruksskola i Bergshammars socken utanför Nyköping, död 20 januari 1921 i Adolf Fredriks församling, Stockholm, var en svensk polarforskare, botaniker och geolog, filosofie doktor 1874 i Lund, docent i geologi och 1876 geolog vid Sveriges geologiska undersökning (SGU).
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  • Alfred Gabriel Nathorst (November 7, 1850 – January 20, 1921) was a Swedish Arctic explorer, geologist and palaeobotanist. Nathorst was born in Väderbrunn outside Nyköping and died in Stockholm. Nathorst’s interest in geology was awoken by Charles Lyell’s ‘’Principles of Geology‘’ and, at the age of 21, Nathorst visited Lyell in England in 1872. Nathorst was employed at the Geological Survey of Sweden 1873-84.
  • Alfred Gabriel Nathorst war ein schwedischer Botaniker, Geologe und Polarforscher. Sein offizielles botanisches Autorenkürzel lautet „Nath. “. Nathorsts Interesse für Naturwissenschaften begann in jungen Jahren, wobei er sich erst der Botanik widmete und später der Geologie. Der Kern seines Werkes liegt dabei in der Paläobotanik.
  • Alfred Gabriel Nathorst, född 7 november 1850 på Väderbrunns lantbruksskola i Bergshammars socken utanför Nyköping, död 20 januari 1921 i Adolf Fredriks församling, Stockholm, var en svensk polarforskare, botaniker och geolog, filosofie doktor 1874 i Lund, docent i geologi och 1876 geolog vid Sveriges geologiska undersökning (SGU).
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