Wilhelm Ramsay, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Finnish geologist, mineralogist and petrographer, who completed first detailed study of the Khibiny-Lovozero alkaline complex
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Place of Birth: Dragsfjärd, South-Western Finland Regional State Administrative Agency, Finland
About Wilhelm Ramsay
- Wilhelm Ramsay (20 January 1865 – 6 January 1928) was a Finland Swede geologist.
- He became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1914 and in 1915 was accepted into the Royal Physiographic Society in Lund. He coined the terms Fennoscandia (1900) and Postjotnian (1909).
- Ramsay also coined the term ijolite.Together with Jakob Sederholm, Ramsay was a student of Fredrik Johan Wiik.
- Pentti Eskola was a student of Ramsay.
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