Portal:Norway/DYK/20


 * ...that Hans Gude (pictured) replaced Johann Schirmer as the professor of landscape painting at the Düsseldorf school, even though as a professor Schirmer had told Gude to give up painting?
 * ...that Carl Størmer, "the acknowledged authority" on aurorae and the motion of charged particles in the magnetosphere, began his academic career inventing formulae for π?
 * ...that Kitty Kielland had to take private landscape painting lessons from Hans Gude because she was a woman?

Source

 * 1) 23 March 2008, Main Page appearance.
 * 2) 28 March 2008, Main Page appearance.
 * 3) 29 March 2008, Main Page appearance.