Residence Finland Name Wilhelm Ramsay Fields Geology | Nationality Finnish Influenced Pentti Eskola Citizenship Finland Died January 6, 1928 | |
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Born 20 January 1865 ( 1865-01-20 ) Known for Fennoscandia, Postjotnian, Timanide Orogen | ||
Institution University of Helsinki Institutions University of Helsinki | ||
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).
Together with Jakob Sederholm, Ramsay was a student of Fredrik Johan Wiik. Pentti Eskola was a student of Ramsay.
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