Fred Kavli – the billionaire patron of research
Norwegian-American Fred Kavli in front of his childhood home in Eresfjord, Møre og Romsdal. Photo: Terje Aamodt.
This year’s third issue of Forskning magazine features an interview with Fred Kavli, a billionaire philanthropist with Norwegian roots, whose tremendous efforts on behalf of research invoke the spirit of another Nordic benefactor, Alfred Nobel.
“Wealthy Norwegians don’t know what they are missing,” says the American billionaire philanthropist Fred Kavli in the Norwegian dialect of his youth. He is donating the bulk of his fortune to research – and encourages others to do the same.
“It’s so delicious to get rid of it,” smiles the youthful, animated 81-year-old in the farmyard of his childhood home in the Romsdalen valley in northwestern Norway.
Read the article about Fred Kavli on the Norwegian Research Council’s website (Rcn.no)
