Arvid Vatle

{{Notability|Bio|date=October 2020}}Arvid Vatle (born 23 November 1938) is a Norwegian medical doctor and winner of the 1999 Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine. He won the prize for his research in the containers used by his patients to deliver urine samples.{{cite news|url=http://www.cbc.ca/quirks/archives/99-00/oct999.htm |author=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |author-link=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |title=Quirks & Quarks for Oct 9, 1999 |date=1999-10-09 |accessdate=2008-10-13 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080511063753/http://www.cbc.ca/quirks/archives/99-00/oct999.htm |archivedate=2008-05-11 |work=CBC News |url-status=live }}{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/462987.stm |author=British Broadcasting Corporation |author-link=British Broadcasting Corporation |title=Brits take the biscuit |date=1999-10-04 |accessdate=2008-10-13 | work=BBC News}}

He was born in Voss, and took his medical education in West Berlin in 1963. In 1981 he took the doctorate in the history of medicine, again in West Germany. He settled in Sagvåg, working as a physician.{{cite news |author=Norwegian News Agency |author-link=Norwegian News Agency |title=Arvid Vatle 60 år 23. november |date=30 October 1998 }}