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Born January 27, 1888 • Zürich • Switzerland
Died March 20, 1947 (aged 59) • Oslo • Norway
Notable Works “Die Kontaktmetamorphose im Kristianiagebiete” • “Geochemische Verteilungsgesetze der Elemente”

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Brøgger, Waldemar Christofer
Waldemar Christofer Brøgger
Norwegian geologist
Norman L. Bowen
Canadian petrologist
Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky
Russian scientist
Auguste Michel-Lévy
French petrologist
Johan Vogt
Johan Herman Lie Vogt
Norwegian geologist
Georgius Agricola.
Georgius Agricola
German scholar and scientist
Dana, James D.
James D. Dana
American geologist and mineralogist
David S. McKay
American astrobiologist and geologist
Gabriel-Auguste Daubrée
French geochemist
Alexandre Brongniart, plaster medallion by David d'Angers
Alexandre Brongniart
French geologist
Charles Thomas Jackson
American physician and geologist
Harrison Brown
American geochemist
Ferdinand Zirkel
German geologist
Henslow, lithograph by T.H. Maguire, 1851
John Stevens Henslow
British botanist
René-Just Haüy
French mineralogist
Karl Heinrich Ferdinand Rosenbusch
German geologist
Henry Clifton Sorby
British geologist
Martin Heinrich Klaproth, engraving
Martin Heinrich Klaproth
German chemist
Richard Kirwan
Irish chemist
Edward Daniel Clarke
English mineralogist