Wilhelm Ramsay

Wilhelm Ramsay
Born	(1865-01-20)20 January 1865
Died	6 January 1928(1928-01-06) (aged 62)
Residence	Finland
Citizenship	Finland
Nationality	Finnish
Fields	Geology
Institutions	University of Helsinki
Known for	Fennoscandia, Postjotnian, Timanide Orogen
Influenced	Pentti Eskola

Wilhelm Ramsay was 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).^[1]^[2]

Together with Jakob Sederholm Ramsay was a student of Fredrik Johan Wiik. Pentti Eskola was a student of Ramsay.^[3]

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 34262469 LCCN: no2008046950 GND: 115889248 SUDOC: 085131504 BNF: cb103708846 (data)

References

↑ De Geer, Sten (1928). "Das geologische Fennoskandia und das geographische Baltoskandia". Geografiska Annaler (in German) (Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography) 10: 119–139. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
↑ Amantov, A.; Laitakari, I.; Poroshin, Ye (1996). "Jotnian and Postjotnian: Sandstones and diabases in the surroundings of the Gulf of Finland". Geological Survey of Finland, Special Paper 21: 99–113. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
↑ Haapala, I. (2005). "Chapter 17: History of Finnish bedrock research". In Lehtinen, Martti; Nurmi, Pekka A.; Rämö, Tapani. Precambrian Geology of Finland. Amsterdam: Elsevier. p. 683–701. ISBN 9780080457598.

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