Nicolaus Zwetnow (28 May 1929 – 18 January 2016) was a Norwegian sports shooter. He competed at the

1960 Summer Olympics The 1960 Summer Olympics ( it, Giochi Olimpici estivi del 1960), officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad ( it, Giochi della XVII Olimpiade) and commonly known as Rome 1960 ( it, Roma 1960), were an international multi-sport event held ...

and the

1964 Summer Olympics The , officially the and commonly known as Tokyo 1964 ( ja, 東京1964), were an international multi-sport event held from 10 to 24 October 1964 in Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo had been awarded the organization of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this ho ...

. After taking the

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degree at the University of Oslo in 1953, he proceeded with the

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degree in Gothenburg in 1970, and was declared a specialist in neurosurgery in the same year. He worked at the Sahlgrenska and

Karolinska The Karolinska Institute (KI; sv, Karolinska Institutet; sometimes known as the (Royal) Caroline Institute in English) is a research-led Medical school, medical university in Solna Municipality, Solna within the Stockholm urban area of Sweden. ...

hospitals in Sweden, and from 1979 to his retirement in 1999 he was a professor of medicine at the University of Oslo. He was also a skilled balalaika player, attending the Norwegian Academy of Music, and a polyglot capable in ten languages.

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1929 births 2016 deaths Norwegian male sport shooters Olympic shooters for Norway Shooters at the 1960 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 1964 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Berlin Sport shooters from Oslo Norwegian neurosurgeons University of Oslo alumni Academic staff of the University of Oslo Norwegian expatriate sportspeople in Sweden Norwegian Academy of Music alumni Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences 20th-century Norwegian people {{Norway-sportshooting-bio-stub