Nissen
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Not to be confused with Nissan.
Nissen may refer to:
- a creature in Norse mythology, see Tomte.
- a building shaped like a tube cut in half along the middle and made from corrugated iron sheets, see Nissen hut.
People named Nissen include:
- George Nissen (born 1914) inventor of the modern Trampoline
- Georg Nikolaus von Nissen (1761–1826), Danish diplomat and writer.
- Hans Joerg Nissen (born 1935), German archaeologist.
- Peter Norman Nissen (1871–1930), Canadian mining engineer.
- Rudolf Nissen (1896–1981), German surgeon and inventor of the Nissen fundoplication.
- Sönke Nissen (1870–1923), German industrialist and philantrop.
- Steven E. Nissen (born 1949), heart specialist and chairman of cardiovascular medicine at the Cleveland Clinic.
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