Arvid Vatle is a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 medical doctor and winner of the 1999 Ig Nobel Prize

Ig Nobel Prize

The Ig Nobel Prizes are an American parody of the Nobel Prizes and are given each year in early October for ten unusual or trivial achievements in scientific research. The stated aim of the prizes is to "first make people laugh, and then make them think"...

 in Medicine. He won the prize for his research in the containers used by his patients to deliver urine samples.

He was born in Voss

Voss

is a municipality in Hordaland county, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Voss. The administrative center of the municipality is the village of Vossevangen....

, and took his medical education in West Berlin

West Berlin

West Berlin was a political exclave that existed between 1949 and 1990. It comprised the western regions of Berlin, which were bordered by East Berlin and parts of East Germany. West Berlin consisted of the American, British, and French occupation sectors, which had been established in 1945...

 in 1963. In 1981 he took the doctorate

Doctorate

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 in the history of medicine, again in West Germany. He settled in Sagvåg

Sagvåg

Sagvåg is a small community located in Stord Kommune, on the southwest of the island Stord, Norway. It has approximately 5,000 inhabitants, which makes it Sunnhordland's second largest community, after Leirvik. Wärtsilä Norway AS have a factory in Sagvåg, producing automation systems for the marine...

, working as a physician.